When did I pick up this heavy burden
When did I decide to carry all this guilt?
I alone am not responsible for this world
And all the heartache and sorrow in it.

Yet, I feel a need, a duty to carry on
To silently try to make all things right
But this I simply can never ever do
Although I try and try with all my might!

And so alone in the nightly darkness
I cry myself into a troubled sleep
Where guilt and grief go hand in hand
And wounding words like knives cut deep

Why can’t I drop this heavy burden?
Why can’t I cast out this dreadful guilt?
Surely I am not completely responsible
For this World and ALL the sorrow in it!!

16.09.08

(Dedicated to Cora's Mother)