#overachiever poems on Hello Poetry

apollo May 26

I always cry too hard,
Strive too far,
Reach too high.

I always work too hard,
Love too much,
Cry myself to sleep.

I’ve always gone above and beyond,
That is the life of an overachiever,
After all,

#overachiever #burnout

The Invisible Poet Mar 13

gifted child

I have always been the gifted child
overachiever and overworking myself
desperate for approval
if I get good grades, maybe my parents will love me
get straight A's
get on the honor roll
be the top of my class
a B is the same as an F
you drilled that into me
my worth was dependent on my grades
if I wasn't the best, I was worthless
I hold these messages to this day
no matter how detrimental they are to me
now staying a the top and the best grades is a struggle
I can't be the perfect child anymore

#giftedkidburnout #giftedchild #childneglect #overachiever

Lillian Feb 26

5 lines to speak my mind

Tried so hard it surpassed my limits
I'm a drained over achiever and a dreaming believer
Really my work is a reward if you could tell by my eyebags
Education system won't let me take a breather
Determination is my pill and I won't stop until I'm burnt out.

#tired #overachiever #goals #limits

Lumin Guerrero Jan 14

So ******* tired

I'm so tired of being tired.
Just let me go to sleep, please.
I've been working
working
working
My whole ******* life,
And for what?
For some stupid praise?
A degree - the same as everyone else that didn't **** themselves over this and instead lived out their lives?

Don't you know,
I don't envision myself as anything in the future.
I get a little sad when I hear people talk about theirs, because I see that they're practically already there.
In their mind, their heart.
They've got that something, keeping me going.

What do I have?
Nothing.
I am nothing.
I don't dream,
Because I don't sleep.
And because I don't sleep,
I am tired.

I am tired.
I am so ******* tired.
And I'm too old to get tucked in by my mom with a bedtime story,
So here I am, writing bedtime poetry and biology notes.

(It all really doesn't matter in the end.)

Doing this in the middle of studying for a biology digestion test. Did you know that we can eat horizontally or upside down because of peristalsis, where muscle contractions in the esophagus contract and relax to get food boluses down?
Yeah, I don't give a **** either.

#tired #overachiever #rant

Lumin Guerrero Dec 2024

6/23/2024

Why don't I feel good about this?
I've been practically killing myself for 3 years and... I got what I wanted.

"Wanted".

Did I really want this?
Was all that for just this?
I should be grateful, I know I should,
but I still find myself asking why.

Why?

They didn't do ****, I did.
They told me and all I said was "oh, wow".
I can't say I didn't expect it, but, I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm not mad that I got it, of course, but not really happy either.
I don't really feel anything about it. I tell people, and I don't feel any pride, just nothing.

Nothing...

nothing
nothing
nothing
nothing.

This was in the response of getting accepted into my current school (admissions were very difficult)

#overachiever #numb

Daniel Tucker Aug 2017

When You Don't Know What Else to Do

You don't give a glass of water
  To a drowning man
And you don't throw a thirsty man
  Into the deep blue sea

Yet I drank deep of that glass
  Though my lungs were full of water
And thanked you for the refreshing swim
  As I gulped the briny down.

© 2017 Daniel I. Tucker

just fill-in-the-blanks ------ ------ ------

"Ok, thank you. Now just stand there while i move this nice showcase of our Royal Dalton outside. Good bull. Now slowly turn around (crash) ... thats ok, I'll clean it up later. What's that? Oh, it's just stuff to eat and drink out of ... bone china is just made of old bones anyhow; don't worry about it...

#overkill #overvigilant #overwhelmed #overcome #overwrought #oversight #overdrive #overdose #overachiever #overboard

Kaylin Marcum Jan 2020

Over this

I'm over this pain
I'm over this ban
I'm over this plan
I'm over this fan
I'm over this gain
I'm over this
I'm done
I'm over disk

This is coming from the bottom of my heart.

#overcomingpain #overachiever

Vert Clair Apr 2019

Pressured

Hang me with a pretty red scarf,
Gag me with my ambitions,
let me suffocate.

My chaos is my own doing,
Leave me to die on my own ******* sword.

#pressure #college #overachiever #extrovert #sadness #overwhelmed #depression

honey Apr 2019

little floral journal thoughts 08

is it okay to
want so much & work so hard
yet have so little?

you are
an overachiever
do everything
till it takes everything
you are

#haiku #overachiever

Lily Aug 2018

An Overachiever's Thoughts

Some think that a well thought out compliment
Is the best gift to give me.
What they don't know is that it stifles me,
Buries me under yet another layer of self doubt,
Wondering yet again, “What if I fail them?”
What if I'm just a fake, a fraud?
What if suddenly I wasn't so amazing, so perfect?
I love to be treasured,
But what happens when everyone
Finds out I'm just fool's gold?

This has nothing to do with compliments I receive on HelloPoetry; I enjoy writing here and it is not stressful at all. This poem refers to current stresses regarding school, driving, and work.

#overachiever #thoughts #stress #anxiety #doubt #fake #fraud #perfect #gift #fail