I can’t decide whether I need more time Or do I need a more determined will?

From Sonnets From Later Life 1981 – 1993.  5-6 May 1992

To My Desktop

by Kenneth Boulding

My desktop is an appalling clutter

Of things unread, unanswered, every one

Reminding of things I haven’t done,

Of thought unthought and words I didn’t utter.

And all I ever seem to do is putter.

I deal with some things, then what seems a ton

Of mail comes in – I’m tempted then to run,

My mind feels like an overflowing gutter.

I can’t decide whether I need more time

Or do I need a more determined will?

But change in Will’s an order hard to fill,

And nothing stops the clock’s relentless chime.

But whether I can find the will – oh, well!

That is a story only time can tell.