Stress

 

 

 

She stressed

 That the stress

 That was stressing her out

 Was stress

 From another stressful situation.

How distressing

That stress was!

 

Stress comes in different ways

Its stressfulness to perform,

It’s emotional and social

Physical and mental,

It’s better to be forewarned.

 

Hence, the reason for this poem

The title of which is stress,

I hope it brings you some relief

And not be an added test.

 

These are modern times, we’re told

And modern is about stress,

Things are happening so very fast

We must always be at our best.

 

 

All jobs are stress we all declare

But yet everybody wants one

If we were bright, we would put it right

And all stressful jobs would be gone.

 

The income is small, we can’t get it work

That in itself is stress,

So to make it more we work overtime

And then we can’t get any rest.

 

One woman is trouble but a man must have two

Then we say that women are stress

Only because as is expected

Our take home pay is less.

 

We buy expensive cars and then cry out

These car payments are stress,

Difficult to maintain, insurance high

And then we feel depressed.

 

“Food prices are up!” is another cause

For yet another kind of stress

But we are eating more food as a result

And becoming more obese at best.

 

 

Christians too are having a time

Though they are too blessed to be stressed,

But to close friends, they complain too

How even the church in a mess.

 

Stress is no respecter of persons:

Of neither the sinner nor saint,

Stress is so indiscriminate these days

That even the stress-free faint.

 

Well, this is the final verse

Another would cause me stress,

And I must admit, I’m not in the mood

So please my friend, let it rest!

 

Stewart Russell © October 2019