tell me atlas,
what makes
the world heavy?
is it its weight,
or its people's chest?
for i know that the world
is full of broken places
filled with heavy-hearted people.
for they are atlases themselves
carrying their own heaviness within them.
tell me atlas,
would it be less heavy
if mine bursts and vanishes?
YOU ARE READING
Thoughts Bared in Gray Nuances
Poetry...and so, rather than flowers, throw the torn pages of this vestige to my tomb. and so, instead of elegies, recite all the pieces written here. and so, in lieu of crying, burn this whole thing and toss this tome's ashen catachresis to my grave. do...
