Among Other Things

Where is this place, where I am?

Who am I, this woman I cannot understand?

What am I doing, and to what end?

These are the questions inside my head

Anxiously I go about

Disappointment is my companion now

Waiting, yet my lover cannot see me

And now my jolly chest aches truly

Still, my eyes sparkle as I depart

These are the sorrows that ail my heart

Crushing guilt fill my deepest corners

Exhaustion demands, my happiness it orders

The joys I have I'm too overwrought to see

These are the pains that plague my body

Never enough, yet not too much

To feel at peace with life's despondent touch

Oh, my whole self I would give

To have a worthy life to live

To be secure, to be pieced whole

These are the troubles that torment my soul