Excess baggage

Do you carry excess baggage?
Do you never put it down?
Does it become harder and harder
To carry it around
We all have something hidden
We all have suffered years ago
But do we have to continue?
To suffer every days of our lives
If you travel overseas with luggage
You are only allowed a certain weight
Else that poor old aeroplane
Will crash before it leaves the gate
Airlines charge you money 
To carry that extra weight
But there is a limit to what
They can carry and still be safe
The same with our bodies
Exactly the same with our minds
Do you know what happens?
If we persist in carrying it around
Our knees suffer for our excesses
Our body eventually gives up too
Operations may ease the problem
But it is never the same again for you
Our minds begin to suffer
Our thoughts are always grim
We have to remove that excess baggage
If we want to survive and get through
It truly is "sink or swim"...