One of my favorite poems posted on Before I am Famous
I visit Exquisite Corpse often on the Before I am Famous blog, and often click on Dragonfly Poems to read a new poem here and there. I write poems myself dozens and dozens of them but never publish them. I keep them in an unfinished book and just enjoy using poetry as an outlet and expression of feeling and emotion, as well as writing whimsical stuff that just comes to me.
I read a bunch of poems on the spark listing and one that stuck with me the most was Tornadoes, A very simplistic and elegant poem about how the struggles of life weigh on ones mind.
This made me dig through my poetry archives and find one of my poems I wrote back, I was working in a position that had me doing 70+ hours per week doing IT troubleshooting and support.
So I am posting this here as a tribute to everyone who works in IT and carries blackberry’s and is on a 24×7 leash.
Hail to the IT Slave
Sweat and fatigue cloud the mind
hour after hour until the end of time
The issues infinite, the problems endless
Sanity wanes, as you start to feel stress
Rolling toward the beach of the worker
Unstable systems toil like waves
Processes, applications, they all take a toll
As you troubleshoot night and day
Redundancy, Failover, all in place
Yet function is down and company loses face
Customers whine and start to complain
As you work magic to restore applications again
So you sit bleary eyed, fatigued and feeling a bit weak
A network issue, hardware failure, or memory leak?
Often a bounce is the quickest cure
Though this solution is short term, and never for sure
-Dragon Blogger
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