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I Cannot Tell You

February 12, 2015
By The_Narrator SILVER, Raymond, Mississippi
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -J.F.K.

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I can't tell you

Why things happen

The way they do.

I can't tell you

Why the world

Is caving in.

I can't tell you

Why

For some inexplicable reason

I feel like Atlas

With the world at my shoulders

So much weight

So much expectation

That when the world gets too much

I will crash.

I cannot tell you why

I can only tell you

It will.

© Kailey E., Crownsville, MD

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