NaPoWriMo, Day Twenty, Poem Nineteen

Pause

Rethink process

of waking 

in pain from

last night's

stable sweep

when nerves

are knees

and every

news story

a hammer

and mad boys

in the streets

are busy 

telling all

to do their job.

Why is it

considered

single most

act of 

bravery

to get up

steady legs

and head off

to work

like always?