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Surface Pressure
In a world where everything and everyone is ideal
There is complications
Lack of motivation is dialed back from absence of pressure
No expectations of the weight you carry on your shoulders
Knowing that it may not even be yours
and just someone who
was not strong enough to do it themselves
Left with the burden of guilt if you too are that incapable
Ones faced with the overwhelming chants of indignity
God you should be ashamed of yourself
Ironic because that is the thing in which shows the most strength
And the reason our brain is numb to this normality
We are crammed under a standard of perfection
That which you are less of a person if you can’t deal in society
The one that is a cut above the rest
Using the feebles back as a step stool
Becoming competition
Of who can hold the weight no one should
Always leaving one to break
With the heaviness cracking our knees
Shaking till you lose your balance
And looking up to see the other glorify in what you could not do
A constant reminder
that no one should hold such an implication over themselves
But that’s silly because maybe it really is just that you yourself
Are too weak
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This piece captures the incapabilities one may have when dealing under the concept of stress. The constant feeling someone will have when comparing themselves to others is difficult to always comprehend, especially when in moments when it feels like you are against the world. I began to understand the constant struggle of trying to carry a weight you can't, and that has made me come to the realization how me, and many others are strong enough to do so.