Rest To Get Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

No promises to anyone,
Have I intended with them made...
To deliver the expected.
Nor has anyone ever heard me say,
I have no need of rest to get.
With a needing of it to confess or express.

Redundant for some,
May be my best to achieve.
To believe a doing of it is easy for me.
Instead of a test I sometimes fail.
And failure for me does not stay to prevail.
Or will it sit to visit as if I am familiar with it.

Achieving my best to leave it left anywhere,
Requires I step back and reflect.
With a giving up a few midnights,
For a rest to get to feel more effective.
And yet...
Has anyone wanting to give their best,
Do it to accomplish a rest to get effectively?

No promises to anyone,
Have I intended with them made...
To deliver the expected.
Nor has anyone ever heard me say,
I have no need of rest to get.
With a needing of it to confess or express,
A wishing to want to do my best 'and' rest...
To witness the doing of it actually happens.