I claim to be strong
But in my weakness
lies the strength
I do not have

I’ll trap you inside these lines so maybe then you will always be mine

You sometimes
find it very tiring
to go on
that you tend
to end the
sentence with
punctuations:

!
when you are happy

?
when you seek for answers

...
when everyone left you hanging

and with these
I came to wonder


haven't we forgotten
the essence
of taking a break
in between emotions?

Until I found
comfort in
a semicolon