For What?

If you disconnect
from your soul
you will crash
on the rock face 
before landing on the shore.
If you think
you can drive your soul’s soft body
hard
and come up for air in desperation
heaving and gulping
you are playing
a risky game
of chicken
and depriving yourself the breath of life
for the sake of completing
a useless listed task
that you will never remember
long before you are gone.

Photo image:  Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay