Reilly Allen Walker is from Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. While he currently earns his living with numbers as an accounting clerk,
he has long been passionate about poetry as a reader and a writer. His poetry, much of it inspired by his life and by coastal British Columbia,
has previously been selected for Issue 15 of Wishbone Words and the inaugural issue of Late Night Projections.
My Burden
I'm
not
able
to ever
shrug my shoulders lest
all I love fall from upon them.