endurance is …
plopping your bottom down on that seat and staying there till you’re done
ignoring your bed
also ignoring the weight of your eyelids which are. so. heavy.
(because you are going to finish this chapter)
putting one word in front of the other
forcing your brain to cooperate
turning your music up so that it does
changing the music because it doesn’t
telling yourself it isn’t the word count that matters, it’s the quality of the words
getting to the finishing line
dropping into bed
because e is also for exhausted
(and ecstatic and also exultant … because you’ve finished, you’ve reached your goal. You endured)
