Am lifting anxious weights
Hoisting the pressure
Lowering the tension
Accomplishing nothing with these
Repetitive motions
Shimmering in a cold sweat
A basket full of nerves
Dangling from both ends
In a deadlift
Lunging forward
Hands clinched around barred bells
Tolling and toiling
I am lifting the weight of years
Yesterdays and tomorrows
Dropping down to give
Myself another 20
Years of existence
Unknotted on the foam roller
Untangling the past from the future from the now
If I can pause this machine
For a moment
Just for a moment
I could eat again
And sleep deeply
The rest fueled by a well executed
Workout
