Deadlines

I hope that doesn’t refer to the lines below.  

OK so I finished and filed my taxes on time.  That’s a deadline with some real meaning, because even to file an extension you have to get most of the work done.

With serious consequences in place

There’s pressure to keep up your pace

It’s a delicate art

To know when to start

So it’s pressure, but not panic you face.

But I haven’t prepared the vegetable garden for spring planting, I haven’t picked up the yard debris, I haven’t posted a limerick in over a week, and if I listed all the other evidence of failing to meet self imposed deadlines I’d never ………..

I hate the self imposed deadline

With no penalty, no sanction or fine

Just self induced stress

And the stream of consciousness

Gets dammed up somewhere deep in my mind.