Challenged

Slipping, creeping, scurrying closer

Time ticks by, mood sinks grosser

Knowing hard times are ahead

Just serves to increase the dread

Of dealing with the tidal wave

New tasks make me a slave

Must learn to live detached

Personal and business mismatched

Stress from one bleeds to another

Days pile on until they smother

Knowing I like to be challenged

Time for delight to be avenged

(This is my October 21st contribution to Poem A Day October.)