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WHAT AM I?
I am wondering
I am questioning
Am running yet standing still
I am breaking apart with a smile on my face.
I want to go home
far far away
beyond the horizon
My home beckons me
My heart longs for rest
I want to know peace like the back of my hand
I want to go go go far away.
They say hold your head up
They say work work work to be accepted
and everyday I drown
My head constantly under water
My temples constantly under pressure
Every time they provoke me
Ever time they say am not
Working enough
Sacrificing enough
If only they knew how I bleed to appear
How hard I control the beast inside my belly
Hold still, I whisper
Too many hits
So many punches
They do not see it
They ridicule and laugh
And I smile loudly to mask the sound of my crushing heart
And the beast roars from the inside
And during the night
I want to escape
Every morning I escape
And wonder
What if I never went back?
What if I carried myself and my memories to a far away land
Never to return
Never to be remembered
Will I be free then?
Will I be free...
2 Corinthians 4:8-10 New International Version (NIV)
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
Copyright © Lyn Ngesh | Year Posted 2019
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