REGRET

Weight shamelessly pushes
Her awkward head down,
Averting other eyes
From her glum, doleful frown.

Copious weight with no means to relent
Forces her eyes,
Void, bottomless holes,
Solely to see the cement
That her dirty brown soles
Trudge slowly upon,
With despair and no hope.

Always following her
To the ends of the earth,
Like smoke from a fire
A destroyer since birth,
Like exhaust from a car
Spit-sputting to death,
This remorseless black cloud,
At her every breath
Holds her back, pulls her down
To purely remind her
Why the stout, pitiless weight
Cruelly thrusts her head down.
Though also reminds
That it is here to stay
To ruthlessly hold
And pull her all day,
Destroying her soul
And causing dismay.

The burden of this weight, this cloud,
Keeping her chin to her chest
Shaming all of to be proud
Dragging down her body and heart
Slowing her shameful march
And killing with not a thought
Her once strong and pure heart,
Keeps her from turning her head
And filling her empty eyes
With the dreadful places
Where she now marches away from,
With the dreadful faces
Who she now will never become,
With the dreadful things
That left her now to feel numb.

The places, the faces, the things
That will always have judged
Destroyed every single thing,
Everything she once knew and loved.