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Procrastination on the empty vessel

Roll over and over to take a breather

Is this dereliction of duty

To not throw a giant stick in the works?

To labour so rigidly

Fleeing safe havens of natural beauty

Procrastination on the empty vessel

Toil to the bone so the machines roll on

Is this vague assumption

That a call to a halt will signal our untimely end?

To labour so rigidly

All the safe havens of natural beauty

We don't believe that we have the nerve

We can believe that refusal won't hurt

We don't believe much in...

We don't believe much in...

We don't believe much in... ourselves

Nil retribution on the empty vessel

Bracing ourselves as we smashed our routine

This feels like liberation

Or a call to a halt that signalled

Our untimely end (?)

To have laboured so rigidly

Barred from safe havens of natural beauty

We don't believe that we have the nerve

We can believe that refusal won't hurt

We don't believe much in...

We don't believe much in...

We don't believe much in... ourselves

Ourselves