Fallow from Portrait by Sharron Katz

FALLOW Sharron Katz

So many years, driven by her fears
Like a mouse on a hamster wheel
In circles she ran, always with a plan
Pushing back the doubt she would feel
Driven- so long- so hard-so fast
Running from habits enforced by her past
Was action her addiction?Did plans ease her friction
Who signed her up for a life subscription
Driving, striving -incessant self-lying
Had to be a better way of surviving
Sometimes fields need to lay fallow
Thoughts so deep need to be shallow
No matter the reason, no matter the rhyme
She enters a season by her own design
Found all her seeds overtaken by weeds
Though she feels failure- she has to concede…
Sometimes fields need to lay fallow
Thoughts so deep need to be shallow
She let’s go of her old inclination-
No plans in her head…no destination
No longer running- she needs to be still
She’s run out of steam, sits with her guilt
Soothes her inaction- forgives her infraction
Soon over time her she feels satisfaction
Sometimes fields need to lay fallow

• Acoustic
• folk rock
• harmony vocals
• soulful
• sultry
• Stratford