Sunday, 20 July 2025

The weight of it all

 


The weight of the universe

is pressing down on me,

crushing. I plea to

take the mass away and

let me be.

I wait impatiently,

thoughts blaring in around me,

swooping at my ears like vultures

diving to feast.

 

I feel the weight of expectations,

standing on the shoulders of giants

just trying to blend in.

Am I supposed to wilt

to the acceptance that I will never

be like a flower that grows peacefully

instead, I will always be

brought down to the ground,

my stem pulling down on me.

The strain, snapping at the base

leaving me pained and my face

a shade of grey.

 

I feel the wait of ages,

every hour serves to sentence me

to a mindful of darkening thought.

I feel like a rabbit caught

foot first in a trap

and I want to gnaw away

my heart to let the pain ease at last.

I feel the weight of my own inadequacy,

how I can’t open up

to be held as tightly as I need to be.

 

I feel the weight of the world

sat heavily on my shoulders,

as I deflect asteroids

and space boulders

from hitting too close

to the gaping hole in my chest.

I feel if I wait,

I’ll wither away

like a speck of dust

into an autumn day.

I feel I’m lost

is what I’m trying to say.

My support network

deceptively

small, and me, 

holding the weight of the world,

as it is crushing down on it all.

 

 




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