Life is Hard Sometimes

This world we carry on our backs gets heavy sometimes 

our arms ache as we stare at the path ahead, 

a path we can't see an end to

pieces fall off and we wonder if they were important

as we try our hardest to not drop what we love most,

if we even know what that is anymore

because the perfectly separated layers of the world get shaken up sometimes

like a snow globe

we get lost in the sharp pieces of something that should be whole

the edges cut our skin and blood, diluted by tears, pools at our feet

we are looking for that little bit of warmth we pray is still alive

looking for a doctor to fix what is broken

but are we even broken? 

Because this world can be hard to understand sometimes

Like, really hard

like a crystal ball we don't know how to read

we get stuck in the quicksand trying to follow a trail left by bread crumbs

then we fall, fall into something we don't know how to explain

disoriented, confused, lost

This life is hard sometimes