POEM: Freedom 📝

It’s always been heavy

It’s always been hard

Never a dull moment

And plenty of scars

No time to think it over

Or to gaze at the stars

Too busy to dream

To look very far

It surrounds me

Clutters my mind

I shift my feet

Suspended in time

With every struggle

A lesson is learned

When you wait

For the tide to turn

Time never stops

Life goes on

Will I surrender?

Or will I bare arms?

It holds me down

Still I carry it on

A burden so heavy

A weight of the world

It want to drop it

Let it fall from my hands

But I’m afraid

Of where I will stand

So I hold it with me

Try to think it through

But in the end

Life is what you choose

So stop hurting me

I won’t let you decide

If I will drop this weight

That I have held inside

But I will move on

I have cleared my name

I defended you

When you caused me pain

It’s always the same

Just in a different face

But I will move on

To a big better place

One of my own making

I will finally be free

Free to live, love, and

To chase after my destiny

This is who I am

I feel it in my bones

A story I will own

And now, I am free.

© 2017 N.M