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the way i crumble

December 17, 2017
By Anonymous

i am being trapped by an invisible force nobody has been able to conquer
you have no idea how long i have been waiting to be released from the grips of this monster inside my head that turns the world to dust any time i begin to open up

anytime someone mentions mother earth and her powers, i am being asked to battle against her

i ask myself how long i can hold onto a slippery mentality
how much longer can a girl hold her ground while an earthquake rips it apart
the length of time a girl can stand up straight in the center of a tornado almost doesn't exist

so why does the world expect someone as small as me to hold the ground down while all the forces of nature begin to rip it up in order to allow the time for everyone around me to escape?

fatigued, i try my hardest to save everyone
but the only thing i ever accomplish is pushing myself further in the direction of death

i hope that i can be the savior people are searching for
but all i want to do is lay down and allow everyone to accept their own fate

is this any way to live?


The author's comments:

This piece is about a my struggle between saving myself and saving others. 


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