Among Other Things
Where is this place, where I am?
Who am I, this woman I cannot understand?
What am I doing, and to what end?
These are the questions inside my head
Anxiously I go about
Disappointment is my companion now
Waiting, yet my lover cannot see me
And now my jolly chest aches truly
Still, my eyes sparkle as I depart
These are the sorrows that ail my heart
Crushing guilt fill my deepest corners
Exhaustion demands, my happiness it orders
The joys I have I'm too overwrought to see
These are the pains that plague my body
Never enough, yet not too much
To feel at peace with life's despondent touch
Oh, my whole self I would give
To have a worthy life to live
To be secure, to be pieced whole
These are the troubles that torment my soul
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