#contradiction poems on Hello Poetry

Ruheen Apr 2019

Average

I'm just an average person,
Capable of only being average.
Doing only average things.
And average is never ideal.
Especially in the world we live in.
So I gave up.
I gave up on being average.
I don't care if people see me as ordinary or ideal.
I care about how I see myself.
And I want to see the best version of me

Nothing going on with me, except for the fact that I am a broken mess who cannot be fixed, just like half the world.
I'm just simply ordinary.
But I don't care. I may be a broken mess, but I know I'm capable of doing more.
I may not show it, but in my mind, the war I've been fighting has already long been lost.
I gave up a long time ago. I've never settled on being average, so I gave up trying.

#contradiction #average

Ahnaf Apr 2019

Love that is blind

I yearn for love that is blind,
but I long to hear that my
eyes and lips are pretty

I champion love that is mind over matter,
but I cannot help but trace the shape of your body
and be happy that it is beautiful

#love #blindlove #beauty #body #contradiction #mindovermatter

Ella Downing Mar 2019

Table manners

Appetiser
-
A fresh, hot glance in the mirror

To start
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A lingering feeling of fat-shame served on a bed of between-wash hair with a dash of blemishes

Main
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An overture of ovulating positivity, a feeling of unfiltered joy and self-love.
Braisen confidence with likeability

Amuse bouche
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Insufferable indecision

Dessert
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A sharp (too sharp) sting of sarcasm washed down with a sweet apology chaser.

#selfreflection #feminism #metaphor #food #menu #paradox #contradiction

emeraldine087 Mar 2019

Light and Darkness

There are no words to describe
how much I hate you
when you hurt me.
You don't intend it;
it happens anyway.

And yet. And yet. And yet.

I love you with all that I am
even when you hurt me--
even when your darkness
attempts to engulf my light.

Because it is with you,
in you, around you,
in the darkness of the days
when I both hate and love you

That I shine.

*(c) emeraldine087

#dichotomyoflove #love #contradiction

Kyla Plummer Mar 2019

More Than I Let On

Countless times have I
Pictured myself and you.
That we may,
That we might
Have our confessions.

My "friend", "blood"
I watched you take
Your last breath, red-
Running, pouring shamelessly-
Lively out your mouth.

I feel tears run down
My cheeks. Why?
We were never close. A barrier
Always forbade connection.
I always pictured us sorting
Through our issues. Why and How we were what we were.
How our ship in this relation sank.
Why our jigsaw never fit.

Yet I cry and feel emotions.
Maybe I loved you despite my
Hatred. Despite being disowned
And abandoned.

I have had visions of us
Confessing, professing love.
That I would forgive you all
The way, not just half.
But I have forgiven thee yet
I feel like my hatred stays.

I mourn you and what
This relation on our ship-
Could have been. That we were
Denied and unable to connect
Our plugs.

I mourn you. I mourn me.
I mourn you and me. Together.
Die in peace my "friend", "blood"
Know I never only despised-
But I loved, love you. .

Go in peace for we shall meet
Again.
Dear "friend",
Dear "blood".

#contradiction

larni Feb 2019

sweet (addiction)

everything i feel for you,
is a contradiction.

i hate that i love you,
my sweet addiction.

#feel #feelings #love #hate #sweet #addiction #contradiction #addict #contradict

shamori Jan 2019

Anti:itnA

They say cleanliness is next to god, but those who prosper follow the tracks left in mud.

Born pristine, on a parallel wavelength, all is one. Told to go wrong, to fit in, to reach the next level.

Arms stretching, reaching for glory. Stepping on heads, hating those below me.

Laughing, ridicule, destruction of value. Man made standards, paper idols. Please give me value.

If Jesus is leader and Satan a demon, then who do I look to if my masters are evil?

And when my meaning is compromised and shoved in the dirt, why must I sin to replace my hurt?

Inverted letters. Darkened faces. The contrast of what’s pushed forward.
Although this can’t be it, I still lack a logic to morals.

#religion #contradiction #paradox #contrast #antithesis #hate #love #humanity #death

KAE Jan 2019

contradiction;

your eyes and heart say that you love me
your mouth say that you don’t

#girl #boy #gemini #capricorn #love #heart #hate #contradiction