Procrastination

why?

There is a gremlin called me

that roams so wild, so free

in the back of my brain

he gives me such pain

I want to strangle

and set him free.

Author's Note

picture taken from 'architects of war' http://greenstuffandbrass.blogspot.com/2011/03/hangin-tree.html

Reviews

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

Okay, for me, with the title of Procrastination, the picture you chose, this well written and deep dark poem, and the "why?" I take this as if you are wondering why the heck one would not just "strangle" and be set free...I can relate to it from many past miseries. Well done. It may not be what you meant, but it has meaning to me.

[Mark]

yep, you got it darling :) Thanks for the review !

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

I got the message. Well done.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Hi Mark, A short poem with such dramatic and deep meaning expressed in 31 simple words. A feeling many of us have experienced.

[Mia]

You actually counted...lol

[de_maruf]

i liked it

[Mockingbird]

the results of being a procrastinator make me want to strangle it too, then maybe i could get more things done.

[Muse]

The title...the poem...lol I can relate. I see you hanged this troll of procrastination. Good for you.

[Mark]

Are you so sure it's the troll that is hanging?

[Mark]

I liked this.
I guess it was not Gizmo,
But geez, don't remember that other name,
This is utterly funny, and sarcastic same time,
Painful too, if you reach deeper into it.
Thank you for this my friend.

E.L.

[Mark]

Thanks E, I wasn't thinking about the movie Gremlins when I wrote this, but that makes sense LOL.. I think the bad gremlin was named Stripe ... not sure.

[Mark]

Gremlin is actually a mythical creature that causes things to break, accidents to happen... generally blamed for entropy and mayhem such as when a car won't start... gremlins did it.

Oh indeed, I think of Stripe now too.... vague still....some kind of a law of Murphy, I guess I understand.... nice way to metaphor it within! :)

[Mark]

Murphy's law... if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. :)

It always go wrong to be right.... after ;)

[Mark]

mm... has to be wrong to be right? Not sure what you're saying here. There's an old song ... 'if loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.' Rod Stewart did a cover of it.

Yes, *goes I meant.... yeah, Joss Stone did also. But different.... With "Wrong to be Right" The concept of, Yin-Yang, balance, Sun/Moon, Fire/Water, Love/hate, all is connected, and Wrong/Right, yep! :D first we see all dark, then light, then dark again, then light again, without these balance, the world would never make war, nor love.

[Mark]

:) Without wrong we couldn't possibly know what right is. Only those that experience deep pain can ever truly appreciate the pleasure in life. :)

So so true... :)