Cross

You’re a
cross
I bear.

Your weight
ladens
my back.

The burden,
my own
doing.

The burden,
my own
undoing.

You’re a 
cross
I bear.

All I
have left
of you.

Without which
I’d float away
unnoticed.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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