World, Hear Me Cry

World, won’t you hear my cry

I scream while reaching the sky

All the ways I am broken and bent

All the ways my bones have been spent

Wrung dry by circumstances I did not choose

Fighting fate’s restraint, I am battered and bruised

Who will answer to these injustices I claim

When there is no one, no one to blame 

If this is life, if this is how it must be

I cannot let it bury me

I vow, one day, my struggles won’t be in vain

No matter how tightly I am bound by chains

For in my suffering lies the meaning

Through my pain, a purpose is beaming 

For it is in the depths of my despair

That I unearth strength beyond compare

When I am called to it, I rise

Roaring like thunderous skies 

So world, hear my cry

For even storms start with a scream to the sky

Inspiration

The phrase, “world, won't you hear me cry” came to me. The rest of the poem came after that line. 

Process

The structure of this poem is couplet with AB rhyming scheme.