#fail poems on Hello Poetry

Scarlet Niamh May 2016

Listen, because I think this is something
you need to hear. You are not a failure.
You have not failed yourself by being upset.
You have not failed the world by being yourself.
You failed to be happy, but that does not
make you a failure. You are yourself, you
look like yourself, you feel like yourself, and
there is nothing more beautiful than who
you are. Do not look to others for the
beauty you feel you do not possess, because
if you look within, you will see beauty
like you never thought could exist. If you
live life as yourself, you will become more
beautiful than you could imagine. Look
at yourself like I look at you, and you
will become more beautiful than you could
imagine. You are more beautiful than
any imagination thought you could be.
Imagine that.

~~ Unique identity should be the love of your life. Unique beauty is the love of our lives. ~~

#sad #beautiful #beauty #listen #lovely #imagine #look #succeed #though #fail

Scarlet Niamh May 2016

Absence

Just take me -
                              take me home.
I guess I thought you might.
                              Despite everything,
I still hoped that you would save me,

                              yet you didn't.

~~ Now I am falling into a void of emotion, yet falling in love as well. ~~

#love #sad #home #hope #fall #friend #help #save #take #fail

Arreonna Frost May 2016

Have you?

Have you ever tried so hard to just give up?

5/15/16

#try #done #fail

Finley in Despair May 2016

"Not sure how, but it's working."

I'm an adult now it seems
maybe different from the rest
the ones I 'grew up' with gone but I won't
forget
I've worked the last seven months
tirelessly
I did it because I had to
my mum kicked me out
I had to pay the bills
buy my meals
remember to wash too
looking back on it though
I have nothing to show for it
I'm alive and well and warm, I guess
so why does my life feel like such a mess
if I look back on previous bank statements
I should be a ******* millionaire???
ok perhaps that's an exaggeration
but you get my point
I work a lot and a fair bit of money comes
but way more seems to leave and I don't
****** know
If that's just me or the way it goes
I don't want to fight this life
always toe to toe
day to day or week to week
at the end of the day most of us
are just
trying to stay on our feet
trying to make ends meet
I'm sat here in my living room on my phone comparing myself to all eight hundred plus friends I don't know and I
can't help but think

*"my future isn't looking good to be honest but I don't usually see past the twenty fifth of every month anyway so ignorance is bliss"

work for a month happy for a week

#living #young #growing #try #struggle #problems #succeed #financial #progression #fail

gray rain Apr 2016

Do It For You

You cut yourself
you feel the pain
stuck in this cycle
and feel no shame

failing school
your life's a mess
and will soon
be just emptiness

smoking too much
and getting high everyday
I can't stop you
but I know what to say

you don't get help
you need too
if not for anyone
do it for you

#drugs #help #school #cuts #fail #poetfreak

Błeeding Dįamøndš Apr 2016

I Failed

I failed.
I failed
I failed
I could have stopped it
everything
But
you guessed it
I failed.
I failed at keeping myself okay,
I was worried on keeping everyone else happy.
I failed at knowing how to love.
I failed at remembering how to be happy.
After what feels like a lifetime being shrouded in darkness,
I have failed to bring lightness to the world.
I bring darkness,
like a storm brings destruction.
I failed to gather the joy
I left it to die.
I failed
But,
its okay.

#depression #okay #fail

Angela G Apr 2016

trial and error

i think i have it figured out,
only to fail miserably.
but i still make progress,
failing less miserably each time.
a trial and error effort of sorts.
oh, each time,
i think i have it figured out,
that it's my time to succeed.
each time i fall short,
but each time i fall a little longer.
at some point,
i hope,
i will make it across the line,
and finally succeed.

#life #fall #failure #contemplation #success #error #finish #succeed #trial #fail

Gregory Paul Dancer Apr 2016

Yellow streaks

Twin yellow stripes;
ride down his back.
So he keeps on driving down
the track.
with ever increasing speed,
from an ever-growing need.

Cash in hand,
Soul ******* in the back.
on an aimless ride.
through the ever-present
prescient present.

#fear #life #death #time #journey #coward #road #futile #fail

Ako Apr 2016

Love 0.0

Remember when you -
never mind.
It doesn't matter.

Remember when I -
Oh just forget it.
The moment's gone.

#love #time #memory #fail #00

Lauren Leal Apr 2016

Lie

My defeat will be the lies I fail to deceit.

Not being able to fake your own lies.

#life #10w #lie #deceit #fail