#bigger poems on Hello Poetry

Zack Ripley Nov 2019

You don't have to wish you could be strong.
It takes courage to stay alive when you feel trapped and in pain.
You didn't know it,
but you've been strong all along.
You don't have to wish you could feel like you had somewhere to belong.
You're human.
You're in a club bigger than you could ever imagine.
So go ahead. Sing your song.
You don't have to be afraid you aren't enough.
You standing here proves you can push through when the going gets rough.
Bottom line, you don't have to think, wish, or be afraid of anything
Because you already are everything.

#anything #everything #wish #dontbeafraid #poetry #hope #human #bigger #somewhereibelong #enough

Strying Feb 2020

Some Days

Some days I feel like getting up,
others,
I don't.
I lift my finger off my bed, and I say,
not today.

Sometimes I wonder if people notice the small things,
like my eye bags getting bigger,
or the slight limp in my walk.
Maybe they do and maybe they don't,
that's not up to me.
It's all up for grabs.

I like to think I'm in charge,
but I know I'm just drifting.
People around me are just carrying me along through life.
I'll never be the person they all look to.
The "Imma 2020 president candidate," tik tok that people actually support.

No love, no nothing.
Drifting. Drifting. Drifting.
Some days I do my homework,
some days I can't even open my laptop.
It's not up to me, it's all up for grabs.

idk if I really believe that I don't have control, maybe sometimes.

#control #limp #eye #bag #finger #bed #up #bigger #walk #do

John McCafferty Feb 2020

Identify

Why are we here when
awareness cites through
the left and the right
Self questions self
There is no us and them
Just us
To effect our reality
we need to
become bigger than I

(@PoeticTetra - instagram/twitter)

#awareness #questions #them #us #bigger

Amanda Kay Burke Jan 2020

The Bigger Picture (Haiku)

People start whole wars
The bigger picture unseen
Red flags all ignored

Idk haha

#random #war #fighting #bigger #picture #ignored #haiku #people #wars #start

JA Perkins Aug 2019

The Letter

He left a letter on the dresser
addressed to whom it may concern.
It read "Never falter under pressure
before the tides can take their turn.
Everything is dying -
The likes of man and all his pleasure.
From paper planes we're flying
to the wooden chests of treasure.
But one Truth will always stand
long after the last word here is spoken:
There's always been a heavenly hand
to heal the heart that's broken."

Some people live long lives,
Some people die long deaths

#faith #letter #bigger #picture