Overdrive

A switch flicked onto overdrive, Frazzles my swollen brain alive, A strained friendship starts to ache, A solid rock begins to break, Two hearts that want to win, Trying to buy admittance in, A stack of work that sighs with time, The stress that steps over a line, The future that groans ahead, Pressure replacing hope instead, Misery guaranteed to magnify, As the dreaded year goes by, Thousands of tears waiting to drop, A wearied body ready to stop, Angry voices prepared to shout, Willing to add a heap of doubt, A score of numbers for me to make, A million falls for me to take, Billions of lines I need to draw, Emotions prepared to be rubbed raw, Dams of pain ready to flow, A quiet voice starting to grow, Is it really any wonder, With the weight that I'm under, I let composure fall to tatters, And cut into my arm a ladder.