Heavy Load

Excitement stirs up butterflies
Within your stomache
Frustration catches them in nets
Cinching their wings
Pain withers them
Destroying all excitement 
Confusion questions
Why?
What?
Spinning around your brain
Until dizziness takes over
Leading way to 
Anxiety
More questions
What did I do wrong?
When will this end?
Driving your self esteem into a dark cave
Leaving you to wander within
Without a light 
Emotions pile up
Like clothes in a room never cleaned
Just adding to the luggage 
We all carry 
After this Pandemic 
Some people’s luggage
May drag them to the floor
Their weak bodies crumbling 
Under a monstrous load
While others may not have as big of a load
We will all have something
That nags at us
Making us sink even just a little
Father away from reality
Burdens we will all carry
More than we did before
We will be left 
With a collapsing social society
People holed up in their houses
Afraid to step outside
The burdens causing personal suffering
To much to move
How will we ever right
This enormous personal dilemma?

Life will not be the same.
 

Whitney

VT

17 years old

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    the breeze of baited breath,
    roots threaten to break ground zero.
    time;
    too much
    too little
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    glass stregthens
    mirrors melt
    clouds converge and darkness reigns
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    I am guilty

    The bars which restrain me
    are but my own fault

    I am guilty

    The lifeless walls
    frozen, unfeeling
    yield no give as I fight to break free

    My crimes:
    To want,
    the stars 
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    Only A Memory

    The wind
    brushes my cheek, with a kiss. 
    Neck craned, my eyes
    skim the sky in bliss

    The scene before me,
    a canvas to interpret,
    I stare, deep within the soul of each star
    this game I refuse to forfeit.