This Damned Weight

All this weight

that i'm carryin' round

is too much to handle

it's takin' me down.

Other folks

they think that I'm happy

they don't get to see

what's inside

they try to be friendly,

I know it won't work

what I do is

I run off and hide.

I know

if they got to look deeper

and see me

for who that I am

they'd take off and leave me

alone once again

as I wouldn't

fit in to their plan.

Now again

I find that I'm lonely

as I crawl off

to my little shell

I hide there so safe

from the outside

and spend life

in a self imposed hell.

So this weight

that I find upon me

that hinders my pathway

through life

becomes something

that I learn to live with

or cast aside

toward a life without strife.

Today

I must open the doorway

for others to see

who I am

to accept me

with all of my problems

lift me up

like I know that they can.

For those times that

we find life's load heavy

we should step back

and try to understand

we cannot travel

life's path without help

we're not weak

when we accept a hand.