Is life a burden

Is life a burden

I am fit enough to carry

From whence does

This weight of expectation

Come

Where is the pressure

Directed

And by whom

There is no hiding place

No matter the disguise

Pasted smiles

Fool nobody

Not for too long

Never oneself

Perhaps only enough time

Is allocated

To hang the monkey

Before the truth

Of one’s weakness

Is realised

What is strength

If not the capacity

To accept help

When it is offered

Why then do we

Continue

In the same way

With a presumption

That next time

We will derive

A different solution

There is no control

Without understanding

The random

Nature of existence

Is a purpose

In itself

And still we try

Until the last breath

Is that a release

A relinquishment

Of sorts

Are we so very different

When nobody knows

The conclusion

But we are programmed

To carry on

Regardless.