woman in chains

 For as long as I remember 

the purpose of my shoulder

 was always to bear the weight of someone else's burden

and my ears, their sorrow.

As long as they had something to say, I would listen;

Giving advice and consoling someone was something that came easily to me. 

But i suppose it's true, the saying that goes 

'Doctors make the worst patients'

While the burden is now twice as heavy to bear on shoulders that are getting bony with strain

And my ears are constantly ringing with voices of people telling me the right thing to do

Like the world's biggest hypocrite I can't, for the life of me, 

listen to the voice that that matters the most:

the one that belongs to me.

It's clear and it's there, 

telling me to just walk away from everything

and to keep walking without looking back
and save what's left of this soul while I still can,

but at the end of the day 

I find myself still here,

Feet chained, by my own doing,

to the weight of the world. 

"So free her"

-Tears for Fears-