#hardship poems on Hello Poetry

Batya May 2019

There are things
I want to say
My voice betrays

I’d rather
Lie forever
Than hear
My voice quiver

I’d rather
Hide inside
Than break
My own heart

So you will never know
The things I want to say

And I will be safe...

And alone.

#love #lie #alone #hardship #pain #isolation

Chris Apr 2019

A Road Less Traveled By

Luck is the way to success.
Love is the way to happiness.
Work is the way to both.
Suffering, suffering is the only way to greatness.

Ripping off R.Frost What you gon do? :)

#suffering #love #work #luck #life #hardship #greatness

Chris Apr 2019

Who I really am...

I see fragments.
I repair.
Make mistakes, and eat despair.

I crave freedom, I enslave,
I am as shallow as is my grave.

I learn and do and reproduce,
I give and take nothing in return.

I come from my fairy land,
To this ball of sea and sand.

It's a world that makes me sad,
That I wish I didn't understand.

I am reminded of how I don't belong in this dry magicless world of sorrow,
It makes me cry. I weigh like 200lbs and am a man grown with tattoos a Santa beard. And when I cry it looks just silly.

#crying #sadness #sorrow #hardship #depression #world #life

Amoy Apr 2019

Quick sand

gravitational pull
falling debris
water escaping sand
it loosens at my feet, it's only an illusion
slowly I sink wondering when will I float

#lifesucks #life #hardship #tiredoflife #nevercatchingabreak

Marla Apr 2019

Float

My mind is a sinking ship
The world's set ablaze.
Holes punched throughout the hull;
Passengers drowned in a daze.

And her contents-
Well, they got claimed as
"Lost at Sea",
I guess no salvage crew
Ever saw what I could be.

Now I'm sitting far below
This thick sheet of blue.
The sun's light only shines once
Everyday, quarter to noon.

The quiet helps me think
As darkness swells within.
The ghosts roaming
These flushed halls
Are learning how to swim.

Now they've started a mutiny
To the captain's delight.
These spirits will all be free
Long before midnight.

The sun break's through the day after,
No wreckage to be found.
Everyone has floated up
To give life another round.

#hardship #imagery #ocean #sea #water #fire #sailing #ships #ghosts #supernatural

Chrissy Apr 2019

Imperfect love

What is a love story if it isn't written in tears and hard-times
what is love if not the days you can't stand each other but can't stand to be apart at the same time
so you lay watching the ceiling on separate sides of the bed while hands are still intertwined firmly
what is love if not the ear wrenching screaming and the bruised knees from the tumbles and turns
what is love if not the heart swelling affection you have for each other
that heals everything else
and the eyes that smile admirably at each other
while the world seems to freeze and observe such as sight

el mundo es mejor contigo

#love #romance #hardship

Esther L Krenzin Mar 2019

Move Onward, Dear One

Does the past stalk us for a
reason?
Or is all this turmoil just a
season?
Eyes turned inward to what's
now behind
Adversity won over in the pull of
time
Dwelling on imprints of paths long
walked
Move onward, dear one, no need to
balk
Those days are done, those suns have
set
Take steps forward, don't live
to regret.

-Esther L. Krenzin-
-Roguesong-

#live #life #emotion #regret #adversity #hardship

chitragupta Mar 2019

Hate

I say,
if you have hate in your gut
Set it free
Make me the outlet
for I have the depths
of the sea
And the little drops
of venom
won't matter to me

A drop more, a drop less - all the same in the sea.
So unleash your negativity on me.

#hatred #hardship #endure #sea #deep #venom

Ron Conway Mar 2019

Time and Circumstance

It sits alone now
Derelect, long neglected
Empty except the transient shelter
Provided to fox and deer
And swallows cliff and barn
The roof collapsed, the shingles succumbed
To a thousand windstorms
The south side sinking
Drowning in the earth

Yet from it's bones you can see
How it would have appeared
Had a century not unfolded
Timber walls hewn by hand
Corners locked and dovetailed
The craftsman's pride disguised now
Behind the ravages of time

Reflect upon the family
Those pioneers so strong of heart
Who built and grew and loved
And carved a life beyond existence
What hardships felt and conquered
What anguish never overcome
Can we imagine now
From our comfortable perspective
The priorities within that fold
Of time and circumstance?
rc

This is about an old settler's home on my land. I see it and think about it every day.

#pioneers #hardship #derelict