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Is it common, is it normal, In its ever present hurdle To be ever, always encumbered By awful, constraining confusion Why can't I ever manage To speak of what I truly mean and hope? Why is it so very, dreadfully strenuous To paint on paper what I saw so well in thought? Why have I never been able to Tell the people I love that I really do care How much I miss them, in their lack And how I value their precious time in my presence... Could it be my youth? Ever-haunting me, in my incapable immaturity My selfishness-- So overpowering, it controls me-- But I'm fairly certain To the point of humble shame The true reason I can never pinpoint my intentions-- I'm a human! The bane of all biology! Am I to wallow in taxonomic pity Cursed with powerful, commanding emotions But a slave to the inabilities, fear, But most of all--confusion Still, is that not the beauty of human feelings, With perplexity through the inability To pinpoint whatever we truly mean Comes art, beauty, (still confusion, evermore).
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 10:44 PM UTC
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Is it common, is it normal, In its ever present hurdle To be ever, always encumbered By awful, constraining confusion Why can't I ever manage To speak of what I truly mean and hope? Why is it so very, dreadfully strenuous To paint on paper what I saw so well in thought? Why have I never been able to Tell the people I love that I really do care How much I miss them, in their lack And how I value their precious time in my presence... Could it be my youth? Ever-haunting me, in my incapable immaturity My selfishness-- So overpowering, it controls me-- But I'm fairly certain To the point of humble shame The true reason I can never pinpoint my intentions-- I'm a human! The bane of all biology! Am I to wallow in taxonomic pity Cursed with powerful, commanding emotions But a slave to the inabilities, fear, But most of all--confusion Still, is that not the beauty of human feelings, With perplexity through the inability To pinpoint whatever we truly mean Comes art, beauty, (still confusion, evermore).
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 10:44 PM UTC
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