Keeping up with the Sandbags

Realizing it hurts    
         Allows oneself to find
Eyes just judge
         Courageous
Let me express or leave
         Character in a circle unknown
All attempts to connect    
         Exonerates
Ties my bonds up in string      
         Power exhausted
Empties my cup
         To create and understand
         An identity unknown
Teaches me to trust
my tears  
         Memories uprooted from the ground    
persist
Owning them is living  
          Emblematic emotions make me want to feel needed
          Feel what it feels like  
                 to mourn
         And that’s importance