Other Adam Isom
You Built (And Paid For) This Wall

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Your spine
You don’t know where it went
You don’t know how you lost it
You're fearful
That you’ll never be strong

It’s so easy to
Just hide behind
That beautiful
Thirteen-inch screen
And stop yourself
From asking if
You think you can
Escape your
Doldrums

At all
You just want to be stronger

Half-asleep
As your youth is fading
You imagine the world
Moves at your leisure

As you shrink
All your hills are now mountains
Grown into Goliaths
But you’re no David anymore

You built this wall
Around yourself
And you must
Tear it down
There’s greener grass
Beyond the Stuck

You can’t do it all
Just because
You want to
You can’t will yourself
Stronger than
You are
You can’t lift 200
If you can’t
Lift 50
But someday, someday
With enough
Days at the gym

You drink
Your poison every day
Your first step is
To stop that
To not let
The normal become toxic to you

It’s so easy to
Just hide behind
That beautiful
Thirteen-inch screen

Half-awake
You still have so much time
You can still be master
Of your own time and your own mind

You built this wall
Around yourself
And you can
Tear it down
No such thing as easy change, but
First thing you gotta do
Is start taking away
And stop adding to