A daze work
Over
Come
Bye sleep
Sow few dream catchers
Sow many dreams
And that’s the catch
This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout. This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught. This poem is a hopeful invitation to pursue your dreams with more vigor, focus and intent. As the Bible so aptly points out, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” (Matthew 9:37) Work is often tiring, as being impelled to do stuff that is tiresome. Enough work and we burnout. Vocations, on the other hand, unleash passions and dreams. With excessive work we miss both sleep and dreaming with our eyes wide open. Vocations both generate dreams and actively invest time and life energy in pursuing said dreams. Still, having sufficient dreams is not generally the rate-limiting factor, unless we are totally burned out. Most often, paying dear attention to those dreams and befriending them with the freshest and best parts of us is what enables us to catch our dreams. May you organize your life in such a way that you are well-suited to catch your dreams.
