Heart Igloo Poem by Chip Schaller

Weary from fighting the personal conflicts
Battling all of the children within
Always a struggle to maintain composure
Walking away from the firing pin

Stiff upper lip is just stiff from the gagging
Choking on sorrow and tasting the bile
Beaten and bruised, persecuted, forgotten
Always convicted, forever on trial

How can I repay your omiscient advisement?
All the world's wisdom will perish with you
Try out a mile in my suffering sadness
Take a brisk run in my anguish-filled shoe

Don't talk to me about stout resolution
Withering words about strengthened resolve
Blathering on about character building
Easy to say with no problems to solve

Sermons are belched out from ivory towers
Rose colored lenses make seeing a dream
Try out the world from my crystal perspective
Cover my ears while I wait for your scream

Hearing of things such as pleasant surprises
All that change brings is more burden or loss
Groaning hello's and the sobbing departures
Shifting the weight just to carry more cross

Fiction and fantasy, dreaming and hoping
Phantom leg jogging is fool's reverie
Stormy despair brought the need for the igloo
Surrounding my heart while I'm stranded at sea

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