Daughter of Atlas

Stagnancy is painful.

So is the salt water running through my aching heart

missing the sea

missing my home

unmoving, stationary

underneath this weight that crushes me

suffocates me

with iron hands that wrap around my lungs

and I cant breath

because this weight is killing me with the fear that is rushing trough every fiber of my being

And I'm afraid.

I'm afraid of this world I carry on my shoulders

I'm afraid of these dark things inside of me

I'm afraid of the truth

The truth of what I see

It's Atlas, and Atlas is me.

Bowing undeneath his burden

and I know

I know

I know his burden

I bow underneath mine

And it hurts, this crushing pain of crippling doubt

because I want to stop.

let its weight crush me so it stops hurting  

But I cant

I wont.

I know this weight,

I've carried it for so long

and it has made me strong.

I am Atlas.

and although my bamboo spine bends

I am not broken.

And I will keep going

keep fightng, keep living

keep loving

every inch of my flaws.

And I am more than my burden 

I am me

This freed daughter of Atlas