The Weight of Knowledge

With heavy heart and burdened mind, I stand,

A college student, in academic strife,

Depression grips me, lends me no command,

My future's shadow clouds my fleeting life.

Yet though I am but flesh, my spirit strong,

And knowledge, though it weigh me down, shall rise,

For I am more than what I have learned,

And in my struggles, beauty shall arise.

So let my pain be not in vain, but be

A source of power and a light to see,

And let my tears, a seed, grow into truth,

And bloom, a flower, to spread its sweet perfume.

And though my spirit may falter now and then,

I shall not fall, for I am more than pen.