Urgent

When everything is urgent, then nothing is urgent. ~ Dennis Ferry

A legal secretary told a tale
of a lawyer who would work
through the weekend,
stacking files and drafts
on her desk, each at one point
having been marked,
"Do this first."
A large sheet on top
directing, "Heck,
just do them all first!"
It's all important.
I had lots of things to do today
and some of them got done,
one got terribly scrambled
and took hours to sort it through.
There are things I didn't do
but reading program literature
and making a meeting,
making a motion that to me
means constant contact with God,
these things I did. And that way
I'll have the wherewithal
to do the rest of the urgent things
tomorrow.