These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Resting Day

Some days when the body's need
is rest to overcome
some sickness or some other test,
good sleeping is the sum.

Desire to keep on going stops
the time to better get.
Productiveness, it always drops
with body weakness debt.

The rest will help us take the time
to heal, and be our best,
restoring us to living prime,
now hopeful and so blest.

The poetry may suffer some
when minds are heavy, sick.
It's rest we need, and when it comes
we'll light creation's wick.

by Jay O’Toole
on November 26th, 2024