Define Boredom

I wrote this the Summer after my Sophomore year of high school while waiting for a shift to end at work.

Nothing is happening

Nothing has happened 

Nothing will happen. . .

Sitting; I wait for it.

Alert; I am hopeful.

I cannot wait for long

For this is much to bare.

Time passes

Within a rusted wearily around

Within a rusted frame baring

An ugly and endless face.

Inside my mind a creature 

Lurches forward and forces

My head down as its

Strong grasp pulls my

Eyelids shut!

The creature has become

unintentionally plagued

By blunt inactivity

Agonizing emptiness

Full of nothing but unused time

Repelled by the void

Lights flicker away

Leaving nothing.  .  .  nothing  .   .    .     .

Reviews

[Jazz]

I love this poem, particularly the second stanza! I read it as the personification of sleep? I'm not sure if I'm right because I guess everyone reads poetry differently but if it is, it's extremely effective.

You have certainly succeeded in describing boredom in a fresh and creative way!