The Weight I Bear

Inspiration from Heavy by Linkin Park

The Weight I Bear

It’s not the world that weighs me down,

But thoughts that twist, that drag, that drown.

An anchor forged of fear and doubt,

I scream within, but can’t get out.

The mirror shows a face I know,

Yet foreign tides within me grow.

A fragile smile, a fleeting guise,

Conceals the storms behind my eyes.

I clutch at air, at fleeting peace,

But find no way to grant release.

The chaos swirls, a constant fight,

A restless shadow day and night.

*"Why can’t I let this burden fall?"*

I whisper to the endless wall.

But though I long to shed this pain,

I bear it still, its heavy chain.

Yet somewhere deep, a voice will rise,

Through fractured hope, through clouded skies.

*"This weight is yours, but not your fate—

You’re more than what you think you hate."*

So though the heaviness remains,

I’ll face the dark, I’ll break the chains.

And find the strength, in time, to see,

This weight is not the sum of me.