My ribs
Aching
My back
Bruising
My soul
Breaking
Everyday I pull a cage over my chest
To conceal what's really there
Everyday
I walk around with a snake tied around my chest
Getting tighter and tighter throughout the day
Constricting my breathing
Getting in the way of
Running
Walking
Living
Only after 8 hours
Or 12
Or 15
Do I get to loosen this snake
Get to unlock the cage on my chest
To relieve my back of its pain
To relieve chest of its weight
To let my lungs fill again
To rest my ribcage
My ribs
Aching
My back
Bruising
My soul
Breaking
Maybe I deserve the pain
The aching sides
Never ending cramps
My lungs never fully filling
Maybe I deserve the inconvenience it brings
Maybe my body likes to see me suffer
8 hours?
Ha!
Give me 10 and then maybe I'll loosen up
Then maybe I'll take it off
But it's not guaranteed
I'll always have to take deeper breaths then the rest
Feels like I'm drowning when really I'm just walking
My lungs never filling
Always have to cope with wearing two layers
Tops
To conceal the fact that I've been born with two inconvenient sacks of fat on my chest
My ribs
Aching
My back
Bruising
My soul
Breaking
About the Creator
Samuel Fontaine
Apparently I'm pretty okay at poetry so I really wanna share it with the rest of the world
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