Part 1 Pressed from all sides 'neath a mountain of gifts, each blessing designed to create yet more rifts.
Weighed from above and compressed from all sides; useless and helpless and angry besides.
Defending forever; with no give to take. Now tired and broken, just one decision to make.
Keep defending or not; be compressed or fight. claw my nose above water or slip out of sight.
Still searching for reasons to seek each new day and continuing on is just the most familiar way.
It's ever more appealing to cease and be gone. So tired of fighting, of playing the pawn.
I ache for the stillness I hope could be mine. Yes, this lone hope is morbid but it's serving just fine.
If hope springs eternal there should be more around. Perhaps they are waiting within frozen ground.
Part 2 I've realized, I don't really want to die I just want my world to die around me the hypocrites circling to seek a cause to be rid of unsuitable me the family burdened by growing cost clutching insurance in case I never succeed the home I may lose- any time, many ways- due to spite, envy and greed the smile that I share, every day everywhere despite what remains unseen the pain ever there, never slack, always bare finding new cause, in everything new, everywhere... I don't really want to die I just want my world to die around me but in the absence of that, there is me which could leave me similarly free and that is well worth considering.
Part 3 Though I've realized this no decision is yet made I remain adrift
Part 4 Wrung out and still dripping, these tears still slipping away, under my skin; Sallow thin skin. A weekend lost to agonizing over what is beyond my control and always was because I am still swayed by those I care for and those I don't. Shaken by each puff of breath and screaming gale. The thought of a mere ten minutes has me terrified and just for tonight I would trade for almost any fight that would allow me to run away.
One part written for each day of a long weekend spent stressed over a many circumstances in general and one pressing circumstance in particular.