Weight

Poetry speaks

I want to cry.

So many emotions I have hid for too long.

I feel the weight of the world on my weak shoulders.

Burdened by choices and paths not taken,

I feel it's weight.

It hurts and i'm scared.

I want to cry.

My feet do not move and I sink as life just pushes.

I answer questions with made up answers

and ask myself that which I know,

but afraid to admit.

What can I say?

Who do I blame when I've been cutting myself?

I want to cry.

This world was not so heavy, but how I carried it wrong.

Now it crushes me with weight I added myself.

How I feel that scream lodged in my throat,

wanting to call for help.

No... that's not it.

It wants to curse my name,

curse this body that fails to move.

I want to cry.

I want to change.

I want the strength to carry the world.

I want my feet to move.

... No.

That's a lie.

I wanted everything,

but give nothing.

I wished and hoped for the world to carry me,

while I held desire.

I prayed for change not for myself,

but for the life around me.

... No.

That's not the truth either.

What I wanted...

What I wanted was to be weightless.

...Yes

That's it.

That's the selfish reality.

Reviews

[Bacchus]

so interesting
that the not moving
the paths not taken
can be a burden... the weight on us

and we want the nothingness the weightlessness
the selfish relief or the addiction to fill us...

this has kept me here for some time
there is much truth in this write that is very deep

[unspokenpain]

very much so, and many others have been here, and that's heart wrenching

[Brittanie Bardwell]

Oh I really love this poem. It's very well written and really holds emotion that I think many people understand and feel. Great work as always!

[unspokenpain]

I love this one too ^.^. Thank you for the positive response XD