Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Issues No More

My mind has been busy, but so I’ve been,
Thinking about issues, and the issues within issues;
It’s amazing how we think so much,
About issues, and the issues within issues!
Sometimes, you find yourself asking,
What are these issues that occupy one’s thoughts,
And why?
As I’ve found out, a lot of the issues that occupy our minds,
Just grow in leaps and bounds,
And soon become issues themselves -
That’s why i call them issues within issues!
Distractions, most of them!
You start off thinking one thing,
And end up thinking a myriad others;
Issues within issues, they become!

One bright idea, soon blooms into branches and leaves
Expanding what was once an idea;
And if not checked or tamed,
You get distracted, even overwhelmed,
By What was once a simple thought - an idea!
The light bulb moment soon becomes a dimmer switch
Flickering back and forth, 
dimming into oblivion even!!

For how long? I ask myself;
Enough! I tell myself;
Dare I allow this to happen again?
No, no more!
Time to get a grip of those mutating thoughts
That multiply simple issues
Complicating them with issues within them!
No more!

~ 03/ii/2020 ~