Words Of a Feather

As a human, I face strife and challenges

I shed tears and blood like any other

And I will never stop until my timely end

I find that each problem is more different than the last

A different challenge to overcome

While I may cry and my body may succumb to the deadly spirit of sadness

Tears washing me like the ocean

I still find a gruesome, hopeful joy amidst it all

I look for the answer to this question

The solution to this problem

The overcoming of this challenge

I ring for any semblance of cheer, so that my tears weren’t wasted

Only to find the same answer

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I hit the same dead end so many times, I’m more dead

The same block I’ve seen so many times

And it always comes by surprise

It’s a catchy song that is never in tune

It will always be engraved into my brain akin to a tattoo on skin

I could never forget this information

The same story told to me on loop

One track I can never remove or escape

We are soulmates destined to walk the Earth hand in hand

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Whether I fail or succeed yet feel unaccomplished

Whether I sink or swim but feel too sick

Whether I fly or fight yet bruise my bare bones

I cannot run from the same advice

I find different mouths to bring me this dreaded news

Yet this advice is a stalker that always seeks to find me

It taunts me from afar, refusing to leave me alone

What used to be a surprise, a nugget of wisdom, a baffling thought

Now baffles me when someone believes they are the first to say this

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I scratch my head trying to scathe this advice out of me

I bash my body against the wall every time I am told this

I hear the same melody ringing and my ears cannot bleed or protect themselves

I grow from appreciative to aggressive the more I read the same story

For all the finite time on the Earth, I cannot learn the same solution

I cannot help but grow sick as the people meant to help me barely help at all

I cannot reuse the same bandage for every wound

I can only listen with the grace that this is meant to help me

And hope that someone else can bring me a different cure