#assume poems on Hello Poetry

Traveler Jan 5

The attacking bear is not evil,
he is merely hungry.
There is no such thing as evil!
Nope, just a lot of hungry demons out there, looking for a meal.
Don’t take it personally
and for god’s sake don’t assume
evil is after you.

Traveler 🧳 Tim

#traveler #totekwisdom #assume #personal

Sarah Flynn Nov 2020

anonymity

you ask me
who the "you" is
in my poetry.

you want to know
who I'm referring to.

you're assuming that
the identity matters.

oh honey,
you have it all wrong.

I don't write these for you.
I write these for me.

#myself #question #write #release #understand #wrong #ask #assume

Racheal Rodriguez Aug 2020

You Don’t Know Me

I am diversity,  I think on many levels at once.  I live on many levels.  I can relate on many levels.   I can see you.  I can see your rationalizations.  Trying to justify your beliefs about me.  I see you feeling that your assumptions are right.  I see you assume wrongly,  You don’t really know me.   I have learned many things from observation and experience.  I know you.  You think you know me,  But I have known many like you before.  Always feeling correct in your assumptions.  You assume wrongly.   Take away your misguided assumptions.  Leave me alone and do not try,  To make me fit into your view of me.  You do not see me.  You see what I want you to see.   In the process, my dreams and aspirations are often mistaken for ambition,  Thought of as a desire for fame and fortune as a measure of my success in life.  Wrong thinking again,  My success comes from the doing,  Not the material things by which society measures success.    That is not me,  But only what I let you see.  I am more complicated than you will ever know.   And yet I am really very simple,  I still naively expect the best from people.  Something I always try to give others,  Honesty, caring, mindful of feelings, doing what I can.   If I make someone smile,  If I help someone understand something,  If I make a difference,  I am successful.   I want to inspire people to be themselves,  And find happiness not in wealth or power,  But the simple accomplishments we all have daily.  Helping make life better for all with wisdom,  Gleaned from observation and experience.   I live and think on many levels,  I am happy with who I am.  Understood or not.  It makes no difference  To me, you see.  'Cause Ya just don’t,  Really know me.

#assume

Fheyra May 2020

Odd Times

Merry, merry— thou filled a hummingbird's tone
Funny, funny— how sottish thy head on stone.

Amazed by blue lights, I swoon and stretch my arms
Looking back, my cottons on grass— ditched my charms.

To assume a side of a well-known— she greets
Received in one sight,— slowly, she falsely meets.

Awkward times can be weird and funny.
The third couplet(stanza) is the one that I experienced. Just imagine the awkwardness when you greet someone you thought you knew, inside a vehicle, that would really cause a blush in a shy thought.
You can all share your awkward moments, if you want😅

#couplet #odd #greet #assume #stone #ditched

imperfectstranger Apr 2020

***-u-me

I’m not who you think
No, not who you see
Now that there’s your problem
You assume who is me

Though you don’t understand
You could at least try
Try and reach your hand
Across this large divide

I’ll reach my hand out too
To make you understand
Me and my goals,
Exactly who I am

#assume #me

Rose Who Knows Mar 2020

Picture Perfect

You can't see behind the picture,
you can't hear all the noise.

Come on folks, don't judge a book by its cover. Pictures are often deceiving. Just like how you don't know what kind of person someone is just by looking at them.

#judgement #pictures #dont #assume #be #kind

Isaac Dec 2019

confident in your confidence

if you are always right

why did you even ask?

if you already know the answers and are just looking for an argument - please, don’t.

#ego #proud #assume #right #wrong

Casey Sep 2019

Assuming

Thought I knew this well.
every step I had to take,
every lie--delivered smiling--I had to sell,
every mindless task, no breaks.

Thought you knew of my own created, designer hell.
watching me falter towards an imaginary goal,
watching my fibs for tells,
watching my to-do list quadruple.

I thought I knew how to quit,
how to snap out of it.
I thought you knew about it,
and how to deal with this ****.

Turns out that neither of us knows jack-squat.
And that's alright, I swear I got this, yeah I'm good, I can do it.
I hoped for you to say something, I thought you knew I was talkin' *******.
Yet, without a word, you left
me to rot.

Did you care? Did you ever even care? Did you see the signs? Did you know they were there?

Alternative Title: Doormat
**** i feel walked on

#assume #assuming #addiction #mentalillness #overworked #doormat #used

Anastasia Jun 2019

supposing

i suppose
that supposing
is assuming
to presume
an estimation.

#suppose #assume #presume #estimation