Twelve Pounds

The weight of it.

A building so tall

it topples the mountains surrounding

the heavy inside it.

Magnitude resting in tiny hands

inside stranger’s hands

inside a room so large

it crushes every heart inside.

The mass of this ache

balloons to huge,

the volume expanding to infinite

all while staring at something

so small

it’s likely to disappear

while leaving

a mark so dark that

it lights up universes

in its path.

The weight if it.

The unbearable,

incontainable,

insurmountable

weight of

twelve tiny pounds.

~Patience

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