Forced With Ease

desperate hearts turned to desperate measures

fragile strength results in fallen warriors

stubborn words and stiffened limbs makes for an unnecessarily trying

way to live

but this is how we escape

this is how we've learned to survive when hope becomes nothing

more then an impossible chance

this becomes our lonely struggle when we clench our fists til

knuckles run white

unwilling and afraid to relax our hands

fearful no one is brave enough to hold us when we're too weak

to stand

we hold our breath just to hold on

but we forget that breathing is a necessity

we fill our lungs and then close tight our mouthes

praying it eases our pain somehow

even in the slightest varying degree

maybe with no air our hearts will stop aching

but that only stops the beating

and ceasing solves nothing