Poetry

This is my cross

    the cross that I carry

can never be happy

    apart from small spurs

        of joy or even of bliss

but then I find another piece

    that folds my heart in a crease.

I go to therapy, try to iron it out

    I never do

The crease comes back,

    itโ€™s always there

all along

    sucking out my joy

    or trying to protect me?

  meddling in my head

Give me clarity

  or leave me alone.


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feet do fail me now
wanna go, and move
but i stay low
so so low
need to move move move
people around me
but no one to take my hand
you take it but how do you mean it really
what does it all even mean

i walked through green lands
touched wet grass with my fingers
walked forward, felt the trees leaning towards me
listened to Lana's poem
and cried


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