Life is all very well

until

it's not.

You (I) can just

keep on keeping on until

one evening

when

there's no coal and the last log

smoulders,

gasping

When silence screams

in your (my) ears

and the task

will not come right

When the thing you (I)

said you (I)

were (was) going to do

simply didn't get done

and the dead

line

looms