hands

Gray skies and heavy snow

Hearts full of apathy and constant lull

Despite the contradictory show

There are hands to hold us down

I am just like you, I too exist

Desperately blind within the mist

Sulking at every opportunity we missed

We don't have it in us to change

Dull eyes create vapid stares

Dreams now realised as nightmares

Our future darkens with the last flares

Of the fire that once burned inside

Our lanterns barely flicker

The bog has infected us, we're sicker

We begin to sink, struggle; quicker

Come the hands to hold us down

Buried beneath a cold curse

A cruelty we can never reverse

Our dreams were so much worse

Than the hands that hold us down

#poetry