Atlas
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Many believe they are carrying,
the weight of the world on their shoulders.
But they do not know the pain,
of holding up a dead thing on their own.
Their crimes are often varying,
Atlas you fool,
let go of the sky
The night carries on , and shines thousands of lights
Or so they said, millions of years ago
Won't you, young God, just let go though?
Be a new being
In a quiet room, stars descending down
Hung on strings, fashioned from old planet’s rings
An alarm beeps, much before all the town
A sleeps boy awakes, groggily sings
Today I lie in the ashes of my own passion,
the ruins of reckless self-obsession.
I sought to outthink my mind, herself,
the prevailing ruler of all that concerns me.
In this world,
Atlas is a pregnant teen girl
On a road trip.
She carries the roads with her
Like she does
With worlds
He defied a god, they say.
That's his own mistake.
But he only ever did it
for his children's sake.
All he did was ask for a raise
to make sure the money left over was a little higher.
Atlas shakes
Beneath the weight
Of expectations
Far too great
He can not falter
He can not fail
His friends depend on him
He must be there
Atlas fades on stormy days
A tortured burden he must bear
But now the birds of song are gone
Descending the depths of despair
In the unknown and uncharted spheres of the universe,
Lived a man who cradled our Earth,
Tucked behind his sturdy neck and bulky arms, he immersed,
Truly, in his own worth.
I would carry the weight of the world
for you
if I could
like Atlas.
My spine is weak
and slumped under my own weight
but I promise
I won't let you down.
take these mountains from my shoulders
roll them down into boulders
rub smooth these stones
they crush my fragile bones
take away the swirling sand
Somebody once handed me a flyer.
It read
“YOU EXIST”
The aftertaste of such an idea
lasted long beyond the introduction
Existence.
A vibrating silhouette of an idea
"I would see you fail
Before I'd let us both
succeed,"
Thought one line of track
To the other,
As the train was derailed.
And my Love’s heavy body lays lifeless,
at my feet.
I shiver
at her ghastly beauty,
lost .
