The Weight of Words

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If words are as powerful as they say,

The why do they not wash away

The sadness that I feel today?

Why does writing not keep the suffocating realisations at bay?

Why can’t I seem to say the things that will lift this weight

From my chest

And sweep away the darkness that is drowning my soul

Why can I never seem to find a way to tell you

How absolutely and utterly

Impossible

It is to breathe without you in my life?

If words have such power,

Then why do they not hold sway

Here in my broken heart

Why can’t they free me from these iron chains

That bind me to this sinking ship

And give my weary eyes

A rest?

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