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# Beast of Burden
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/beast-of-burden/
- Published: 2023-12-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Obedient, like any beast of burden that's trained to carry water up the hill. Ambivalent, equivocal, uncertain, and lacking all initiative and will.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Obedient, like any beast of burden  
that's trained to carry water up the hill.  
Ambivalent, equivocal, uncertain,  
and lacking all initiative and will.

No, that's not you? You style yourself a rebel.  
Important, of some consequence, at least,  
when you are hardly more than just a pebble,  
unworthy of a cease or a desist.

An insect, inconvenient when splattered --  
a dirty windshield, not much of a chore --  
Would someone notice? Have you ever mattered?  
Here, wipe your tears and don't be such a bore.

What's harder than irrelevance? To wit,  
what's worse than if you matter not a bit?