#carry
For those who fled their homeland,
through destruction and death.
The weight you carry
is the memory of the land you come from:
love, family,
triumphs, tragedies.
They hold no importance
in the eyes of those who watch you
as you walk on.
You bear visible scars
and wounds within,
and you struggle with dreams
you cannot yet bring to light.
The past does not define who we are.
It is the present that holds value,
the present that keeps
the promise of tomorrow.
Masi Roberto © 2025
Dec 28, 2025
Dec 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM UTC
i feel so empty
like the world is just
a hunred times bigger
than i am.
probably because it is -
but it doesn't feel like it used to.
almost as if there's more
than ever before.
it's too much to handle,
i feel so empty
and unable
to deal with the weight i carry.
so i make up a lie
and disconnect the line
with the promise
to speak again tomorrow.
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM UTC
In my darkness
You saw my red heart pumping
It was beating for you
Like a glow in the night
You found your way to me
You asked if I was still alive
I asked you to please come closer
Please find out
Your lips were warm
And the softness heated mine
They now matched my heart
"Carry me with you
Take me away from the darkness"
Picking me up into your strength
Carrying me like a child
My head against your chest
We were now we
And alone I can never be
Nov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM UTC
You cry in the corners of the world, because the spotlight will blind your eyes if you were to step out
You cry in the darkness of your mind, because outside you know nothing else but to hold a smile
You cry in front of the lord, because he is the only one you'll let see your pain
What has this world done to you? What have you done to be destroyed?
How can you still be standing by the time the sun sets, by the time of dusk?
You cry among the stars, and you’ll only cry during storms
So then your tears would be hidden among those of the god
Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM UTC
Withered walk that betrays a tale,
Stumbled forward, fallen back.
Every step now smaller than the last,
Under this carried cross unfair.
See the millstone grind its weight
Upon shoulders worn and frail.
No peace, just pain;
A broken boy behind that smile.
Let him pass on fragile ground,
Ever on toward his breaking point.
Watch that weight he carried far
Come welcome crashing down.
Tom Lefort - August 2025.
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM UTC
THE SAD ONES
You are used to loneliness
Grief is your only friend.
You walk in silence, with voices in your mind.
But with me, there is gospel:
Carry on, carry on.
Stare at the sky ,I'm there.
You are not alone. Stare at the sky.
This is hope.
If you're scared, go to church,
And find triumph in those silent battles.
Salvage what remains.
You've been lost for a while...
Here is your salvation.
You will be fine.
Jun 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM UTC
Sometimes I tend to be a catalyst,
Carrying things to light,
Rooting them deep where they belong.
Nothing bad,
It's what I do,
I'm proud to ferry,
The things they carry.
Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM UTC
We must carry great faith in our young writers,
I must carry great faith in me,
Carry great faith in he, they, she,
Who?
Those who will inherit the art we cherish,
Keep it close, stringing together what emotions were lost,
We know the real cost.
Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM UTC
Our final steps
are never meant to be
one step on the moon
or a leap for mankind.
It was your memory,
intangible.
metaphysically physical
synaptically existing.
My mother's
mothering
mother, Bernice.
or
A lover's
loving
love, Helena.
or
Writer's
writing
wrote, poems.
Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM UTC
I'm that girl
Who
When it rains
Carrys her umbrella
But won't use it
She'd rather get rained on
I was injured as a child
By an umbrella
I opened it and it sliced
My finger
I remember the pain too well
So now I fear being
Injured by the one thing
I had to protect me
From the storm
So I may still carry you
With me
But I might not
Let you protect me
This is how I am.
This is why.
Feb 5, 2025
Feb 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM UTC
May be true they won,
So, we shall carry on.
Our greatest gift,
To be swift,
In complete darkness.
They shall be snide,
Keep your head held high,
For beyond the storm therein lies,
a beautiful grand blue sky.
Let them think they won,
As we carry on,
Headstrong.
Ready for whatever may come,
Showing everyone,
What we can become,
As we carry on.
Nov 7, 2024
Nov 7, 2024 at 10:42 AM UTC
You can not break
What's already been broken
You can not recall
What's never been spoken
You can not run
When the spirits been stolen
Is there no hope left
To put any hope in?
©2024
Jun 26, 2024
Jun 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM UTC
Do you realize how much you mean to me?
A genuine smile on your face all I want to see
Near to my heart hold the image of your face
It's one piece of you impossible to erase
Every moment we spend together helps carry me through
Lucky to have somebody in my life as special as you
May 6, 2024
May 6, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC
It’s okay that no one cares about you;
The trees, the mountains and the might sky blue to name a few;
Are all strong souls that stand on their own;
You have roots oh so deep and strength in your bones;
Don’t forget your power just because the storm is raging
You have the grit in you to go through the lows you are facing;
For someday the storm will fade and sunlight will crack
And new saplings will want your shade and the strength of your back
Apr 13, 2024
Apr 13, 2024 at 2:05 AM UTC
I’m building a bridge
from my heart to yours
crossing over troubled water
my shore to your shores
one end to another
we’re stringing the sun
with the moon to the other
till the whole worlds been strung
so if our hearts ever dangle
and if you ever hope to jump
come hang on with your life
and I’ll hold you up
Feb 11, 2024
Feb 11, 2024 at 7:39 AM UTC
We walked together
till together walked away
We stopped the walking
and sat down to lay
wondering how
life is heavy this way
not to carry
together’s slack
and whether we could carry
together another day
if together
were to ever come back
to stay
Aug 24, 2023
Aug 24, 2023 at 4:52 PM UTC
Only the strong
can be pierced by the sharp sword of truth
Only the strong
walk unarmed unafraid into the fire
Only the strong
carry the weak and shield the hapless
For strong is its own master
never servant to mere powers
Apr 25, 2022
Apr 25, 2022 at 11:37 PM UTC
Long, weary day
Drained my energy away
What am I to say,
On a long, gloomy day?
Friends, they bring cheer
Friends are always near
To the heart, and before me
Giving as much support as need be
Even literally
Carry me away
On this cloudy
Cloudy day
Carry me away
Away like the wind
Up into the air
Down unto the grass
Time so short, it almost isn’t fair
Yet the moment comes only to pass
Thrill of the unknown
Rise into steady arms
Spin and see the day gone by
Away like yesterday
The cheer of friends,
The joy that they bring
Into my step a spring
Into their caring arms
Away, away, carry me away
On this cloudy, perfect day
Once looked upon with dismay
Now this is what I say;
“This has truly been fun,
Even without the shining sun
You all brighten up my day
In my mind this day shall forever stay.”
- Jay M
September 24th, 2021
Sep 24, 2021
Sep 24, 2021 at 5:18 PM UTC
A sky of blue above
Miles of dirt below
A world of everything between
Beyond that?
I don't know
One foot in front of the other
I stumble through existence
When I began I never imagined
I would travel such a distance
Caring too much about the wrong things
Not enough about what I should
Mixed up from every angle
Feel bad but am told I'm good
Friends fade further from me
As the years steal memories
Moments indistinct and grey
Wishing I could make time freeze
Take me back to certainty
Before life got so off track
When the world was full of color
Instead of shades of black
Now depression is my ball and chain
Following wherever I go
Heavy and awkward to carry
Have no choice but move slow
It is easier to just stand still
Than to pull with all my might
So everything changes around me
While I waste away night after night
I see smiles on faces all around
But when I paint one to match
It just doesn't look the same
And it wills me to detach
Hope used to sit in the palm of my hand
Now I grab and it's not there
In it's place is a sticky substance
I've come to learn is despair
Fall apart over and over
Every time I manage to sew my seams
Doesn't take long for a stitch to break
And out pours joy in little streams
Until I am left deflated and empty
Wondering where I went wrong
I could conquer my misery
But I've found I'm not that strong
Wading through a sea of distress
Shore further with each crashing wave
So I carry on way over my head
Too deep for anyone else to save
Sep 19, 2021
Sep 19, 2021 at 5:51 AM UTC
I don't know how to say this
Do not want to break your heart
Want to be the person you wish I could be
We'd be better off apart
Where is this going?
Got to be able to tell
Noticing for awhile
Haven't been doing so well
I fought dozens of battles
Silently in mind
Kept them imprisoned
Less conflict confined
I should face problems
But I am a coward so I run
Hard to conquer an argument
You already believe you won
Maybe I am being harsh
I can only take so much
A relationship is supposed to be
More than people who touch
See sometimes feel a tingle
Think "this isn't so bad"
That itself means it is
To deny must be raving mad
The friction is obvious
Where do I draw the line?
I am stuck in an internal war
Between your emotions and mine
My hands might be lonely
When clasped something is amiss
As long as yours fills gaps between fingers
Nobody else can see if theirs fits
If being totally honest
Seems you don't really care about me
Tears drip out eyes all the time
You are too self-centered to see
Trying to build life back up
You are standing in my way
Making things harder than already are
Painting sky shades of grey
I am opening eyes to reality
Hope you do that too
We both need to stop lying to ourselves
We know it isn't true
I taste sorry on my tongue again
Taste regret on my lips
Obligation squeezes tighter
When you put arms around hips
Only now letting you know
How much feelings have changed
My head full of hope for a heavy heart Hung from noose was exchanged
I should have been forthcoming
Informed you was over as soon as I knew
I can't stand causing others pain
Why it took this long to say this to you
But sick of home not feeling like home
In own room feel out of place
You've transformed it to your own
Do not have a single private space
You are a tornado
In wake is a trail of destruction
Many flaws get in the way
About time I move obstruction
Your ego too big for me
To properly see around
In fact how do you even lift your head?
Must weigh a thousand pounds
Your conceited attitude more often than not
Provokes until seeing red
Arrogance unattractive
Try acting humble instead
I cannot picture a future with you
You are inconsiderate and dumb
No ambition or work ethic
Would rather be a ***
You take time with everything
Never met someone so slow
Put so much effort and see no results
Almost no progress to show
Without my aid what will you do?
How will you get high?
Depend on everybody else around you
If you desired you could get by
Lungs filled with poison
Bloodstream with *****
Need crutches to get through each day
Think these substances are helping
They really only get in the way
With only pride and standards
I will continue life in solitude
Better than being with someone who's naive
Not to mention selfish and rude
Consequences for actions
Finally caught up to where we are
Have tolerated a lot of ********
I've decided I'm raising the bar
My goal is to go further in my life
Than you plan to go
Hindering distance to travel
Making it challenging to grow
Soon you'll be left in the dust
Discovering I was right
Won't be able to use me as an excuse
For failure when I'm out of sight
You call me idiotic pet names
What I am in your contacts under is bold
McPoops?
Actually prefer "The *****
What are you? Six years old?
How many occasions have you pouted?
Sulking because you disagreed
With words said or things done?
I gave no choice but concede
I have every right to be unhappy
How can you not understand why?
May not always be reason for tears
You sure do not help them dry
Are you center of universe?
That is how you act
Helping yourself to anything viewed
You are entitled and that is a fact
I do not know if you do it on purpose
You disrespect everyone here
Using stuff but not asking
To rules you do not adhere
The only person I have ever met
Who is even lazier than me
Make messes faster than you clean up
Cannot handle responsibility
Not to mention you can't keep track
Of any possession you own
Or that you failed to pay back majority
Of money you have been loaned
Your expensive eating habits
And cockiness get on nerves
Believe you are correct about every subject
Isolation what you deserve
You break trust without hesitation
Snitching on me like a rat
If I plead with you to keep a secret
You can't even follow through with that
You probably think we are being mean
That you are misunderstood
If that's true then tell me this
What have you done that's good?
You disassemble stuff like a tweaker
Not putting back in one piece
Have given you so many chances
Still the madness won't cease
It is an eternal struggle
To even get you to barely move
Just procrastinate your life away
After promising to improve
Rather live in solitude
Than with a theif who lies
Took two CATs of my dad's
You thought he would not realize?
And when telling you something
You do not want to hear
Pretend to agree with statement
Goes out the other ear
You have to get your priorities straight
It's clear you never will
How are you expecting to survive
Without ambition
Sapience
Skill?
You expect others to carry your load
Piggybacking much as you can
The behavior of a little boy
How dare you call yourself a man
But when affecting your wallet
You are stingy as they come
Generosity is not in your vocabulary
Unless receiving some
Then have the audacity
To judge the way I live
Degrading me because of choices
After the ****** up **** I forgive
At least I do not blame my dependency
For why I'm unable to function
Worse still you put fault for your addiction
On pharmaceutical corruption
I have met plenty of people
Fed prescriptions as a child
Medicated whole **** life
Their abilities are not defiled
You envision the world to your favor
Instead of how it is for real
Perception the problem here
Delusion rooted in privilege you feel
You have a lot of growing up to do
Wish I would have waited
Gotten to know who you really are
Now I wish we never dated
Jul 29, 2021
Jul 29, 2021 at 11:25 AM UTC
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, don't hide it---we miss them:|
me being a runaway flying in the black hinges
soaring in the twinkling skies
I crave you as a hungry wolf that knows no boarders of freedom
in there in the shady street
as I dive into my vulnerability you sense my need
you sense my desperation
its like you read my locked lines
among the flowers of the highs
in the publicity of tamed crimes
you have me
running on rage
screaming on blades
the cake comes and you appear none
lying down
hating the crowds
the bargaining weight of these suicidal sounds
where are you???
nowhere to be found
leave me in yells when the time ends and dwells
this is a first in a hell
do you intend to choke me to death again???
it is me who you pressed undamned on your wided chest
and carried it all away in a mild stance
when no one dares
to a slightest bare of your cans or cares
don't forget me still not lying
still breathe for your touch
and your essence on that spot
just tell me where
and my heart will voluntarily beware
to be awaiting a hold of torments in the bliss of fair
when you mindlessly gear
affording to disappear
a night changes its shades into a million gleams
you seem to draw on my warm sheers
------ravenfeels
Apr 2, 2021
Apr 2, 2021 at 1:56 PM UTC
I carry…
The rings my mother gave me…
One for my birthday and one we got together…
I carry the necklace my great great grandmother gave me before she passed….
I carry the weight of losing both of my best friends
The weight of my depression
The weight of my anxiety
I carry the weight of the worry of my family
I carry the hope for my future
I carry the love for my friends
The hope they will stay
I carry the love for my boyfriend
The necklace, the bracelets
The bracelet locked around my wrist showing commitment
I carry the struggle of my everyday
The struggle to get out of bed in the morning
I carry the makeup,
The makeup I use to paint on a face
A face that is pretty
A smile
And eyes that don't look exhausted
I carry the earbuds to drown out everyone
All the ******** that is going on around me
I carry the notebook
The one that I use to vent about you
Say the things I can’t say out loud to you
And him
And her
And everyone that has hurt me
Jan 30, 2021
Jan 30, 2021 at 10:56 PM UTC
The greatest honor I have ever acheived
The privilege of carrying your heart received
Nov 21, 2020
Nov 21, 2020 at 5:40 AM UTC