procrastination

one flickering light bulb

lit the room in yellow

i think of an old friend

who always called it “‘ello”

a heavy mountain of textbooks

sits itself beside me

the unseen pages stare

i feel a jolt of anxiety

i glare back in red

angry at them for existing

making hollow promises

that were beyond them to fulfil

representing a class of systems

that belonged to a different time

the audacity of those spines

demanding authority over mine

the needle on the wall

completed sixty revolutions

another hour I had thereby passed

contemplating problems

and impossible solutions

every second of this time slot

i wanted to sit and paint

i wanted to sing aloud the songs

that were upholding me

and keeping me sane

i wanted to fix the flickering light bulb

that lit my room in yellow

i wanted to think of my old friend

who always called it “‘ello”

– procrastination

16-04-2019

Hello there!

It has been a while. How are you all?

I wrote this piece during exam season when I was tired of all the studying and in no mood to pick up another book.

What do you do when you procrastinate? How have your exams been? I’d love to catch up so feel free to shoot me an email or leave a comment!