The Weekend Guest

I started today a tad relieved

Nearing the end of a tiresome week

Little knowing I would end up being peeved

Ill, moody, and visibly weak

I looked forward to a frenziful Friday ahead

At a night pubbery, guzzling a beer or two

Post earning my daily bread

Instead landed home abrupt, day going totally askew

Something of a frightful aftermath

I should have possibly foretold

Considering that I had incurred the wrath

Of a sore throat and a bad cold

Five days spent in meetings galore

With team members from as far as Seattle

To as near as Bangalore

Preparing to ruthlessly embattle

Against threat of multi-varied aspects

Of deadlines for project chartering, resource allocation

And goals prioritization. Revolutionary grandiose projects

With the underlying theme of global tool standardization

Carrying over the strain from Greece where I honeymooned

I arrived most unfavorably on Monday with an unkempt beard

Courtesy of a day’s layover in Bahrain laying marooned

With misty eyes and sleep backlogs aplenty to be cleared

A solid twelve work hours per day on average

Spent this week. Too detailed, but sublime.

If anyone cares to hear, let’s engage

On a separate note in the interest of time

On the intricate nitty-gritties abound

In program management, but for now Ill aberrate

For at leisure, I can later expound

Once I mentally convalesce and physically ameliorate

Life is a curving freeway, with many a hairpin bend

A bed of thorns or a couch of roses

So are weekends as a class, my friend

Some spent hedonistically, some spent blowing noses