It’s ok

Actually
It’s so totally ok
That I’m tired

It’s a massive job
Being a human

It’s a massive job 
Being a parent
To small humans 


The world is in utter turmoil


So much doesn’t make sense


Our innately, exquisitely intelligent children can see this so clearly 


And they know


They know how to pull us back to the truth of our reality 


They know how to pause in wonder at 
birdsong, starlight, new fungi 


They know how to play


They know how to feel


They know how to take their sweet time



What they don’t know 
is how fucking uncomfortable it is
to be stretched across the chasm of their knowing of what’s real
and our adult bondage to
the bullshit reality of late-stage capitalism 



It’s so totally ok that I’m tired 

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