Weight of the world

By Artanis

Nothing prepares you for this
The cold winter
Without love
Without gentle hands to hold
Fragile arms close
To a healing heart
Gentle hands have let go…
And the heart falls to pieces
Tragedy smothers the last light of summer…
The burden of knowing Is surprisingly weightless
Like a cloud
But the burden of living
Lonely
With a broken body
Ignorant to the existence of a soul
Is heavy,
As heavy as the Earth resting upon
Weak shoulders
And Atlas will never take the burden back

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Copyright 2014 Artanis
Published on Thursday, January 2, 2014.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: I love this....Its all so heavy, isn't it?

  • Soulfire On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Soulfire (97)By person wrote:

    "Tragedy smothers the last light of summer.." Simply beautiful

  • dwells On Thursday, January 2, 2014, dwells (4288)By person wrote:

    Why should he when the world is too much with us? Cheers and Atlas never had it so good - back in the long ago when simpler times gave voice to ancient memories forgotten now, cheers A! Wonderful piece here, thanks!

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