How Do I Live?

How do I live?

How do I live, with this dream heavy on my chest?
Unfulfilled, yet refusing to die
How do I live, with it taking up such space?
It’s blocking light and air. Oh why?

How do I go on? Pretending to exist
In this role I call my life?
What will I do? What will I be?
Can’t I be simply mother, worker, wife?

Why do you, o Dream, torment me so?
Please, just go and let me be!
I am too tired to fight and humbled by life
Please, just set me free.