This is not procrastination

I haven’t been as mindful as I need or want
I can feel it in my mind and body
A misplaced alertness for things irrelevant
Sensations of toxic normality

Away from the grand scheme of things
Lost blinded in an ocean of detail
Not a grip on thoughts or feelings
Cognitive powers diluted frail

Paralysed by too much potential action
Picking one seemingly a cinch
My mind is toiling at tasks by the million
Whilst my body hasn’t moved an inch

Magritte would frame it and write
“This is not procrastination”
And the man would be totally right
It’s 21st century fretting without motion

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