Stand

It is not so bad 
You get used to it
It will get better 
Someone will see
That it is not working
And sort it out

Soon
Any minute now
Probably tomorrow
Next week perhaps
This year sometime for sure
Or next maybe 

After a lifetime of shuffling back
And shuffling back
Of please, thank you 
Have a nice day and
Sorry to be a bother

It is time to stop shuffling
And bowing and waiting
For someone else to give a shit

It is time to stand 
Exposed 
And ready 

They may hurl it
Rain it down 
Flay flesh from bone
Grind us back into stardust

Let it come
For it is here that we stand 
From here we will not be moved
To perish here is to have lived for something
To have gifted this spark 
Back to the great river 

Or we could keep bowing and 
Shuffling our days away 
Shuffling back and shuffling back
Until eventually there is nothing left to do
But to curl up and wait
To be taken