Atlas Hugged

Atlas shakes Beneath the weight Of expectations Far too great He can not falter He can not fail His friends depend on him He must be there Between their stares and Their troubles he's bearing They do not see The weight he carries His burden buries His soul He barely Breathes For fear Of falling And crawling And bleeding and seeing His world held up On shoulders of stone Rolling away With all he has known Atlas alone His burden is lifted At the cost of his home Solitude gifted But what is it worth To live without strife If all of his purpose Rolled out of his life And what is the point Of waking from night To stand all alone No friends at your side So Atlas strains And Atlas holds And Atlas crumbles And Atlas folds All of his fears have come to fruition Atlas has failed his singular mission But the world doesn't fall And shatter to pieces The gentle blue ball Hovers in peace It's Atlas who falls it's time he rested He held on so long That the heart in his chest it- Grew tired and cold It slowed to a stop And he found his legs Unable to walk When Atlas awoke He was feeling surprised To see all his friends As he opened his eyes They held up the world While his body recovered A burden shared, Atlas discovered Is far less weight for one man to bear Now Atlas knows His friends will be there