Neural Adaptation

I will be like the feeling

Of your shirt on your shoulders

A minor convenience

So inconsequential

Your brain filters me out

& you forget I’m even there

Until you’re reminded

You can feel your shirt on your shoulders

But even if you’re never reminded

& you never acknowledge me directly again

You will still be feeling me

You will still be carrying my weight

& then at the end of an easy day

Where you’ve done nothing

You’ll wonder to yourself

“Why am I so tired”

Unaware

You’ve been carrying

The tiniest burden

Of being unkind

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