Prosaic

Lately I have been
   running on fumes
   grasping at straws
   on an emotional rollercoaster
   in survival mode
      and
   not firing on all cylinders.

Maybe I’m just wiped.
Maybe I bit off
   more than I could chew.

As luck would have it,
   I find myself
      in a world where everything is a cliche
                        and anything goes
                            as far as the eye can see
           because I have no brainpower left
              to think of anything interesting
                                          original or
                                          non-prosaic.

I’m all bent out of shape
   at the end of my rope and
      I need to abandon ship
                  change my tune
                       and
                  just call it a day
            before history
                     repeats
                     itself.

What it boils down to
   is it’s back to square one
                 to the drawing board.
It’s time to cross out all the lines
        and start from scratch.

But I still refuse
   to do it all by the book.