{"sf1_id":617454,"sf2_id":"rn9Ljp0m","title":"Voices of the Silenced","author":"librios","words":392,"posted_at":"2013-11-23T17:07:00.000Z","tags":["Example","Non-Anthro","Poetry","choices","free verse","influence","inspiration","silenced","stress","the","voices"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/617454-voices-of-the-silenced","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn9Ljp0m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4a/a0/4aa07340-955b-4eaf-9475-cb277e715219","description":"#15 of Poetry\n\nJust been a lot that's been going on. After I submitted a poem in my town locally, It seems to have caught the attention of a lot of people. Things that have been going in my head mostly","content":"Thought that I knew what I wanted\n\nSeems like life has a way of changing it\n\nThrough day and night\n\nAs both the moon and the sun shine on\n\nI walk the road that very few choose to walk on\n\nJust wanted to change a life\n\nTo help somebody from the darkness\n\nThough I've helped many people along the way\n\nIt seems life has a way of catching up with me\n\nPressure starts to build up\n\nBeginning to feel the weight of the world\n\nOn my whole back\n\nThis isn't the usual depression\n\nOr anger that builds up\n\nIt's a pressure of great expectation\n\nNot just from my loved ones\n\nBut on myself as well\n\nAs it slowly creeps up on me\n\nFeeling heavier day by day\n\nAs the clock keeps ticking away\n\nI knew the risks of choosing this path\n\nBut why must it feel like I can't move\n\nLike the burdens of the world are slowly chaining me down\n\nFeels like the nights are slowly passing by\n\nMinutes feeling like eternity\n\nLike a clock\n\nTick Tick Tick\n\nIts true I wanted to help people\n\nBut for some reason I keep getting this weird feeling\n\nAll over my body\n\nI get close to a person\n\nAnd I can feel like their soul is screaming\n\nFrom all the hell that they have endured\n\nSo haunting yet so similar\n\nWorking hard to help\n\nYet so afraid of making a mistake\n\nLike the whole world is waiting for me\n\nTo make one mistake\n\nWith eyes that burn\n\nLike the sun on a hot summer day\n\nI'm supposed to set an example\n\nwho never breaks his composure\n\nEven though I feel the burdens on my shoulders\n\nI need to be the leader\n\nThe broken hearted look to me to guide them\n\nIt's crazy that one thing\n\nMade me an inspiration\n\nEven though people are healing\n\nAt the end of the day\n\nI come out exhausted\n\nAnd breathe out the screams\n\nOf those who thought they were lost and forgotten\n\nCan't really tell people on how I'm feeling\n\nWithout losing control of my own emotions\n\nThat and I just don't want people to think\n\nThat I can't handle this on my own\n\nDid I make the right choice to step up\n\nAnd break the silence\n\nBecause now I know\n\nI became a voice for the silenced\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/610895-when-frustration-and-mystery-embrace.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/618362-don-t-go-off-ignoring.json"}}