Be wise and prioritise

Poem: Be wise and prioritise

Can it wait?

Can it wait?

Can it not wait?

 

Think about it

 

What cannot wait?

To postpone?

Or purposely ignore?

What is the alternative purpose?

To make a situation unnecessarily a chore?

Prioritise

Does it make sense?

You know the answer

 

 

Review: Be wise and prioritise

Immediate

Insistent, repetitive

Important right?

Could almost be shouting at the reader but doesn’t thankfully.

A bit like attention seeking newspaper headlines, that would and does turn me away from the message and might as well be in a foreign language. Or a stark warning of alien invasion from outer space. I shrug my shoulders as the only clear message from that type of communication is a desperate call of  “we aim to enrage” “buy me buy me”   I’m glad there are no capitals in the context of this poem. I remain curious due to the repetition at the start of it.

A build up of the thing that is calling out for attention and the poet questions the urgency of it. Questioning throughout. The only things that are not questioning are the title and what I view as guiding statements that are: “Be wise and prioritise”, “think about it”, “prioritise” (word used again) “you know the answer.”

 

The poet is confident to empower the reader to know that they hold the answer to whatever may be the task at hand. So long as they are aware of the distractions and insidious distortions.

 

 

Is it an observation that most people have too much on their plates and things could be managed a lot better on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis?

What are the important tasks?

 

 

For example:

Emptying the dishwasher

“Can it wait? Yes, and it has waited

To prioritise it ahead of me writing this would have turned it into a chore and I would have got ‘the hump’ Resentment would have kicked in.

I purposely ignored it and prioritised with this (writing again)

 

My alternative purpose?  Again, was and is this writing (that’s the third time it has come up)

 

It highlights to me other things that I put ahead of what I should be doing and what is a priority.

Emptying the dishwasher is just one example.

 

It’s a good poem to come back to frequently as a guiding structure.

 

Most things could be improved with an alternative plan or plans to move ahead with completing a task and achieving a better life. I think a flexible hierarchal structure is the answer. Does it make sense? As it asks in the poem, yes it does, it makes sense to me.