My brain is rattling rattling rattling and running running running. It’s zooming and pinging and bouncing and banging and thinking and asking and full of worry but I’m just so tired it
Needs
To
Stop
Papers to grade, plans to make dinner to cook, practice to drive, visits to schedule, things to buy, plans to set, people to text and pets to feed.
Nothing in focus, nothing in memory, nothing gets done, it’s halfway or midway or half paid and then it zooms away and in comes something new.
And I’m tired, so tired. Coffee to get me out the door, to stay awake on prep, to stay awake to drive home, but I need to grade and run and drive and cook and be nice and prepare and bathe and
Just
Lie
Down
But then it’s night and the meds didn’t work and I fell asleep but not totally asleep and the dreams came and I was in grandma’s house and I was sleeping in the dream and trying so hard to wake up and looking at the clock and watching TV and drinking a can of Coke— not the big can, but the small can— and the sugar and syrup tasted so good and I looked at the clock and it was late morning.
And in my dream I wondered why Grandma wasn’t up yet and what would happen if she died in her sleep while I was visiting and who would I call— Blair Funeral Home— and what clothes would I send— the outfit in the back of her closet— and what would I do— call EMS first, then my parents— and then, still in the dream, I realized
Grandma was already dead.
And this was her house and it was empty except for me and I got up and walked to the bedroom door and that’s when my alarm
Went
Off
And I woke and I brushed and I clothed and I drank and I fed and I walked out the garage door to face the day
A day of running and talking and explaining and helping and caring and encouraging and raging and commiserating and moving and I’m now
So
Tired
But I don’t want to disappoint
Anyone
My greatest fear
And I’m hanging on to my appointment like a lifeline and hoping there’s a life preserver and the end and not a frayed end to find out what the hell is wrong THIS time and what did I do and what can be done and how long will it take to
Feel
Normal
So tonight I will run
I will take a shower that runs out the hot water
I will snuggle with my pup and cuddle my cats
I will play mindless iPad games
I will scroll through @dog_rates
I will breathe in
And out
And in deeper
And out longer
And I will begin anew