Freelancer

This is a poem that I wrote for TUGZ Magazine as a part of my senior creative writer role, so I’m excited to share it with you today! Freelancer, as you might’ve guessed from the title, covers the more negative, frantic and frankly stressed side of working in a freelance position, considering both the effects of the work itself and the stigma or prejudices around it. You can find it on the TUGZ Magazine website by clicking here or, if you prefer, you can simply read it below!

Freelancer

You work too much–too often–too hard…
yet these late nights all meld into one:
fingers twitching, vision shaking,
and a developing mind on the brink of collapse.

It’s not really a proper job, though…
still, what’s the difference between being
locked in a cubicle, shop, car–
and feeling trapped in your own bedroom?

At least you have plenty of free time…
but it never ends–there is no clock-out,
no brain switch-off; responsibilities writhe
in my dreams, haunting every hour of my life.

If I could work in bed, then…
then you would know the exhaustion,
the brief triumphs, the lasting anxieties,
and how nothing is ever good enough.

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