what you cannot put down
I will pick up -
this life is a shared weight -
it is not the weight of its burdens
that brings us to our knees,
but how we carry them;
I will take on more,
for you;
to see you light,
I would lift the world
I scream my fears at the page,
its blank surface
soaks up the ink of my doubts,
it absorbs my rage,
it gives nothing back,
its gift
is the place
where I ease the weight
of these burdens
I have chosen to carry
