#expectations poems on Hello Poetry

Kate S Apr 2019

Sweet Saturnine Child
you fear so much around you
expectations you don’t understand
responsibilities you never wanted
you’re disciplined in your actions
yet your mind tells a different story
because you
Sweet Saturnine Child
are better than your expectations

#sad #child #expectations #saturne #responsibilities

Kate S Apr 2019

Expectations

Just because
someone
does not change
how you think they should,
does not mean they are stagnant.
It means
they do not meet
your expectations.

#expectations #change

GingerHound Apr 2019

non-binary in a binary world

Sometimes I don't belong.
"10 things all women do",
screams the headline
Not me, I think, scrolling along.
"every man should try this", demands the caption.
And I just sit here thinking, not for me.
Do they even understand a fraction
Of what it's like to be
Here, in the middle, in between?
"just another queer millenial"
Is that what they see?
Can it really be that they reduce me
To that? Because I know
That I am so much more
But still, this is a blow
That strikes hard
And it hurts.
Am I allowed to cry?
Under which of society's odd rules should I
Handle my feelings about this?
Because men, as it is,
Are unmanly when they let tears flow.
Women, however, are expected to do so.
Now what do I do?
I could lose myself in thinking this through
Over and over again.
My circling thoughts never come to a halt.
There's just this one thing I know:
It is not my fault
That I can't seem to fit in.
That's the way it has always been.
One gets used to it, you know?
Just keep fighting and grow
up to be who you want to be.

#nonbinary #transgender #expectations

xtine Apr 2019

stood-up

how sad is it that
false promises and false expectations
are what i expect to come

This isn't necessarily for a dating scenario. This also applies to all the friends who I wish would consider my feelings too.

#false #expectations #promises

Ciel Apr 2019

Expectations

Expectations are the quickest and most certain way
to ruin any adventure or new experience.

#poetry #poem #adventure #experience #expectations

Ciel Apr 2019

Dear Mother

Look at me
and see me.

See me for what I am,
For who I am.
Not who you think I am,
not who you hoped I would become
or who you want me to be,
not even for who you've been told I am,
but for who I truly am.

Even though it might break your heart,
disappoint you
or crush your soul,
accept that I grew up to become my own person
with my own beliefs and values.

Look at me
and see me,
the real me
not a younger you.

That is the greatest gift you could ever give me.

#poetry #real #poem #mother #parents #expectations #kids #person #love

Smoke Scribe Mar 2015

the expectation of expectations March 2015 (crap, why did you have to go and follow me?)

Part II of "Got 0 Followers"

aim high
to keep
it low

expectations
such an
Awesome Awful
curse
others infect
you with

don't, yada yada,
ya wanna be like
Tom, **** and Jane,
even Harry, a transgendered
friend and fellow (ha) outcast,
all with a good job
prospects of a
goodly tented long life?

so ya write poems
to nobody
about nothing and
you are pleased
to be pleasing just yourself

in writing you have
nothing to prove,
so read them
like keepsakes
ya like,
keep 'em & me hid,
in the shoebox
under the closeted
pile of ***** clothes,
special designer outfits concocted
so they keep my remains,
privatized and unsanitized,
my equity,
hidden,
disguised as disgusting

but for god-sakes
don't follow me,
unless
you want to curse us
both with
Expectations of Expectations,
then comes with
illiteracy of
Affection

then the literary
pre-tension
that always follows,
leading to

Affectation,
the first derivative of the infection of affection

yeah,
then comes
caring
and it instantly it's too late,
you're *******,
right up the mental heine,
lost condemned
ruined annihilated
crushed subverted
crushed into
mental death camp suffocation of more, please ma,
can I have some more?

**crap, why did you have to go and follow me?

#expectation #of #expectations #part #ii #got #0 #followers

Tony Tweedy Apr 2019

Responsible Me

I remember being son.
I remember being brother.
I remember being boyfriend.
I remember being husband.
I remember being father.
I remember being employee.
If you have had your fill can I make a memory of being me?

Have you asked yourself...."is this all there is"? I suspect we all get there at some point.

#responsible #responsibility #unfulfilled #empty #roles #expectations #self

Carmen Jane Apr 2019

Baffled

You're keep telling me how you would like things to be,
Then when I tell you about my disappoinments,
You advise me, not to have expectations...

A thought

#expectations