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Hunch Back

September 28, 2015
By Jbinder SILVER, Metairie, Louisiana
Jbinder SILVER, Metairie, Louisiana
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Favorite Quote:
'The time has come' the Walrus said 'to think of other things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax. Of cabbages and kings. Of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings.'


I’m hunched over.
I’ve got a hump on my back.
My shoulders are aching,
And there is nothing I can do about that.

Don’t tell me to sit up straighter,
Or to walk with more pride.
I don’t do it on purpose.
I just don’t have the strive.

I’m shaped like this,
Because of years of hurting.
The weight of the world,
On my now aching shoulders.

It pushes me down,
And I can’t seem to revive.
I carry this weight of the world
In the hopes that I may survive.
 


The author's comments:

We all have burdens and troubles, but what happens when it all gets to be too much?


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