Gravity
To my Family:
I'm fine.
That's all you needed to know.
That's all you wanted to know.
I don't want to take help from others.
I can deal with it on my own.
I've got two feet on the ground.
The gravity isn't too much.
I took on a lot this year,
and time is slipping away,
like I'm standing on the edge of the
cliff that's crumbling to the depths
below me but at least
the gravity isn't too much.
I like being alone.
I don't need to be with others constantly,
even at night when the world grows dark,
a cold-hearted time where I feel forgotten, but when
the gravity isn't too much.
Back then, I wanted him out of the house.
He was in constant pain, constant anger,
if he only went away, maybe then I'd feel that
the gravity isn't too much.
The colors are dripping out
of me, and it's not because
the gravity isn't too much.
In the end, it wasn't really the gravity,
the gravity isn't too much
because, truly, I am drowning.
I'm drowning in the fear of
broken hearts,
misdirection,
sickness,
but the worst is
the possibility that
I will be called out of school
with the wretched message that
the cancer had won.
And forever, my strength will
be lost because
the gravity is
too much.
But for now, I'll be fine.
Love,
the Quiet One