Noise

Noise.

It amplifies to cover everything else.
The  "required"s           musts              ASAP!s
  due dates            schedules
            bustle and hurry
 get me lost in the loud maze of busyness
    where the bright flower petals
                     crumble into colorless dust
    where poetry             remains hidden       in prose
    with no one to   see it   and ravel it out

You say                    Be still     .

I need to breathe but I think the walls are closing in
      and I must find my way out.

Oh, Lord                       Keep me.

    Keep me yearning for you.