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jennifer-goodness
Irish
"You need this... Just let your mind relax..." My body keeps telling me As I sit here My eyes drooping As my mind goes fuzzy Fighting the urge To take a snooze Is no easy task Because you'll usually lose But I must do it The thoughts in my head Will just become more livid If I let myself slip unconscious Because although thoughts flash Across the mind When they turn to dreams It's a continuous stream But maybe I can doze For just five minutes? No I can't Because it won't end there I must stay awake It's the only choice At least the one that makes The most sense But alas, it's no use It's overpowering yet again I'll close my eyes, and go to sleep Just to wake up again This time maybe My mind will take flight And show what I want Not what I fear.
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Nov 23, 2010
Nov 23, 2010 at 5:25 AM UTC
Fears Awaken in Dreams
Lying there day after day Sun up, sun down Same old routine Children poking fingers Banging on the glass Pressing their ugly noses Into the only space you call your own Thus is the life of a zoo animal Living in cages and tanks Detached from the rest of the world Longing to be free Often I find myself In the same scenario Behind imaginary bars All by myself As life goes on I'm stuck here Repeating patterns And longing to be free But slowly and surely I am breaking free From these bars That have burdened me
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Oct 25, 2010
Oct 25, 2010 at 5:13 PM UTC
Free Me From the Zoo
Friends Best Friends Truer than true friends Forever friends Or so i thought But sitting here now Looking over What we had Wondering what the hell happened I've done so much for you And what do i get? The back end of the burner And the short end of the stick You just don't get it Do you? You don't get why i'm upset And you probably never will Truth is You care more about your new "friends" Than you do About the one who's helped you the most If i ask you anything about one of "them" You'd know it off the top of your head But when you mention me You don't even remember my age You give off the wrong impression of me And mock me in front of friends Don't you think that hurts? Do you have that little respect of me? I may as well not be here Because that is how I feel That i am just some rag doll That you just push to the side But you wanna know something One day you're gonna be in trouble And the only one who'll be able to help Will be me But you know what? I won't come to your rescue Because the friendship we had Was your loss, not mine
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Oct 25, 2010
Oct 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM UTC
Severed Friendship
She sits there At the desk Her head spinning As it begins Day in and day out All she ever feels Is the feeling Of being everything She's underappreciated, And under rested. She's overtired, And overworked Her friends are the only ones Who appreciate her For who she is Not what she does They're the reason why She’s still hanging on To that rope she's clinging to That just keeps fraying. Sometimes she just feels Like she's nothing at all Or even worse- Like the energizer bunny She keeps going and going But not on her own terms There’s always something that needs to get done And it's up to her to do it What she wants to do Keeps getting put on hold- Things that she needs to do Take a number and wait in line She feels empty Like she's nothing at all She’s running on autopilot And it’s running her life Even sleeping doesn’t help For the horrid dreams kick in But I guess when you're on automatic Nothing seems right But yet there's hope That keeps peeking through This dark soul That has engulfed me For as long as I have a heart That continues to beat My soul can remain pure Even if no one can see
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Oct 25, 2010
Oct 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM UTC
Running on Autopilot
The sweet sound of silence Lingers in the air As the house is emptied For all but me A time to relax And take things easy Do things at my pace And not deal with demands Music starts to fill the silence As the beat has me moving, Shaking my stress away And i am at total peace Four o clock rolls around Things get a little stressful But only barely As little brother comes home Reading is his favorite hobby As is sitting and listening To his older sister As she engulfs them into a faraway land But all the while A sense of relaxation is present But when the phone rings Is when the tension comes knocking again But give it a while And the tension simmers And eventually It once again goes away As we go our separate ways
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Oct 21, 2010
Oct 21, 2010 at 7:04 PM UTC
Melted Stress
The creativity that once Flowed through the mind Like the wind through the trees And the blood through the veins Has taken a back seat As the mind is now full Of things that take priority In regaining sanity and peace A war has erupted And being stuck in the middle Is proving to be No easy chore What qualifies as being more important? Moving forward for one's self Or helping others to do so? All comes down to the state of mind The conscience is the ultimate answer For listening holds the key Whichever path it chooses Is surely the right answer Isn't it?
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Oct 21, 2010
Oct 21, 2010 at 6:37 PM UTC
Stuck in the Middle with You
The wind rustling the leaves And the crickets playing a song brings peace to my ears it's tranquility soothes my soul It takes me away to a faraway place where the time does not fly and stress is non existent a place that is seldom traveled to for the turmoils of life make us forget about finer aspects so just sit back and enjoy nature the sounds and sights and the way it surrounds you because the stress will subside and the peace will overcome if you just breathe in the air and let it take control
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Sep 8, 2010
Sep 8, 2010 at 8:14 PM UTC
Mother Nature Always Nurtures
spinning around and around getting dizzier every step don't know up from down it's all just a blur marshmallow clouds float in a caramel sky as lemon drops fall into a chocolate river nothing is as it seems reality drifts away as fantasy kicks in perhaps to provide safety safety from emotions that whirl around the head all seem to be morphing into one big ball of chaos the chaos leads to tuning everything out so thus she creates her own little world
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Jul 13, 2010
Jul 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM UTC
Own Little World
I sit and I watch As the rain comes falling Listening to the thunder boom and the howling winds And I think about those Who hate the rain Who claim that it's a boring day Because they can't do anything Well I've got something to say Maybe a new thought to you This comes as a shock But weather has feelings too The weather gets sad too Just like humans That's why it rains They're tears coming down A comparison would be That for it to be sunny all the time Would mean for us That we have to be happy all the time That rarely happens For humans or weather We just have to run emotions Because that keeps us healthy So next time it rains Just remember this Let weather run its course It's just natural A rainy day is a time to relax Take advantage of it Now if you'll excuse me I'm going back to my outdoor symphony
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May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM UTC
Outdoor Symphony
I stare out the window And watch As the trees, sky, clouds Go passing by And I long so much To sit Out underneath the wide, Never ending sky To let the white, Jet puffed marshmallow clouds Drift over my head At their own pace The fresh air Gently sweeping over the area Blowing through my hair Like a wild mustang When it runs The pictures I take Don’t come close To capturing the real beauty But it’s better than nothing As I sit here in the backseat With my family And even though I am similar I am completely different So for now, I just ride Thoughts fly free Inside my head The open spaces I see Are just through the window.
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May 15, 2010
May 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM UTC
Just Through the Window