Hello everyone, this poem was inspired by Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2. I tried to focus on the theme of family and how it helps heal the hurt in our lives, but make of it what you will. Please enjoy and leave a review :)


What We Build

There's a hole in me

Full of ice that grows

Creeping into the corners of my mind

Oh, everybody knows

They all have one too

Oh, everybody knows

That from the darkness it's hard to be free

We try to fill those holes

Covering chips on our shoulders and the pieces missing in our hearts

We make do

And boy does it hurt

When someone we love is ripped away

The ice grows

The ice takes

Holes become bigger

And our constitution wavers

But with the promise that it may be better

We rebuild ourselves day by day

And through the pain and the coldness and the emptiness and the hurt we find inside us

We find our hope

We build families

We build faith and friends

We make plans, have dreams

We find a reason to fight for a future

We make a home

Not in a place but in the souls of others

We make a home

We find love

We build love