Crack
I Am Stone.
Unbreakable, strong
Yet I've borne their weight so long
I know—
and it truly unnerves me,
All around me
ignorant minds
that don't know this burden
But they never will—
For I Am Stone.
Yet I watch in envy
Of how the unbothered,
wonder,
and walk
This cruel burden,
a role without grace
But I must not break
For they are fragile,
breakable.
I am Stone.
Unbending,
numb to all
Numb.
Numb…
numb.
I will stay
As long as it takes
For even as I ache,
and although I may chip
They don't,
They wonder.
They walk.
They live.
I am stone
unbreakable.
. . .unbending—
I stand
so they can walk—
I stand
so they can breathe. . .
And I stand,
I bear…
I endure…
And I even. . .crack
So they can wonder. . .
But I don't—
I don't want to crack
Oh please —
why can't I wonder?
Crack—
Why can't I breathe?
Crack—
Why must I carry it?!?
Crack—
Why must I carry their truth?
CRACK
I am with them now,
I no longer carry it—
I wonder,
I walk,
I breathe…
But I have done what—
Seems to have made a blunder. . .
Everyone is gone now
For they—
Are dead. . .