Dust

Dust on the desk
Dust on the shelf
Dust in every flat surface of my home

I see the dust
I leave it there
There is a finite amount
of how much energy I have
to clean it up

I look at it
And decide
again and again
to do nothing.

Nothing at all,
because dust is
the last thing
on my list of
things to do.

Dust accumulates
I look at it
I notice it
I do nothing

We live together
sharing the same space
putting up with each other
until one day
I clean it.

But dust is persistent
and it accumulates
again and again
covering every flat surface of my home.

11 December 2021

For those, like me, who have to make decisions over what to keep clean around you, when there isn’t enough energy to do all the things.
Mine is dust, what is yours?