Education

saying i love you is not enough

because love is easy

loving you is easy 

living is hard

living is hard in the moment

and even harder across time

perspective is heavy

they never tell you that in school

looking into a mirror

morning after morning after morning

staring into your own reflection until

you can’t recognize your own features

and staring at the deja vu of wrinkled unraveling sheets

and realizing you need toilet paper

and splitting the plies in the meantime

or else

4 years behind in taxes 

a tax for living 

and wondering if you can afford

your cat’s cancer

they never tell you that in school

and waking up morning after morning

after morning

and staring at your wrinkled face

sisyphus? don’t make me laugh

he struggled with the same rock 

day in day out

my boulder picks up dirt day by day

and grows more unwieldy by the hour

and how could i know the incline would

be slick with newborn clay

the sick uncolor of lifelessness

they never tell you that in school 

loving you is easy

everything else is hard