#overthinking poems on Hello Poetry

may Mar 2018

Right place, wrong time.
The tender closing everyone gives.
It seems to be a theme in my life.
It sends me down the path of never-ending what if's and self shaming for things that maybe could have been.
If I worked harder.
If I tried to be better.
If I changed.
Always coming back to certainty the root of the problem is me.
If I was worth it to make the wrong time right.
But what if it wasn't me? What if it was just the timing?

#love #hate #timing #fate #insecure #self #worth #overthinking #past #future

Skylar Michael Mar 2018

foxes have holes...

I'm just a taxidermy with a soul
but I've seen foxes on display that look better than me.

#taxidermy #honesty #foxes #overthinking #existing #living #struggle

SeaChel Mar 2018

My Mind Is Tearing Itself Apart Over This Thought

"You're better off without him."
"You could do so much better."
"You deserve better than that."

Better,
better,
better.

I don't need,
I don't want
anyone's sympathy.
Take your pity party elsewhere
to someone who cares
for the attention.
Because I need space
to contemplate.

My exes have probably heard
the same spiel too,
"You're better off without her."
"You could do so much better."
"You deserve better than that."

Better,
better,
better.

But,
what if they are
the ones who could do better
than me?

#insomnia #crazy #overthinking #better #breakup

Jennifer Feb 2018

i think too much

sometimes wish my skull was hollow,
sometimes i think it is.
brain replaced with pansies,
flourishing from liquid dreams.

face blank; staring into
unfocused air.
cursed with a sleeping brain,
blessed with its craftsmanship.

memories caught on tape.
scenarios rolling smoothly;
every moment, invoked upon personally.

worries creep in like Japanese knotweed -
can’t ever get rid of it all.
most of all, thoughts like shattered glass
make me bleed from unusual places.

sometimes wish my skull was hollow,
sometimes i think it is.
feel like i exist more in my head
than i do here.

#thinking #overthinking #memories #nostalgia #thoughts

A A Feb 2018

Cattails

I am being crushed by the weight
Of warm cattails, two tons.
As the sun-kissed wooden fences make the world around me look grey- I suffocate.

#cattails #warmth #sun #stress #suffocation #suffocating #overthinking #too #many #thoughts

A A Feb 2018

World Turning

I wish the world would stop turning for just a second
So that I could have some time to collect my thoughts.
Because there’s just so many of them.
And only one of me.

#world #spinning #thoughts #stress #anxiety #overthinking

Dom Bobek Feb 2018

Overthinking, I love you so.

Overthinking, I love you so.
Overthinking, I won't let you go.
Overthinking, you're breaking my heart.

Overthinking, you're making it hard.

Would you kindly
leave my embrace.
I could use some

******* space.

Not freeze in time
everywhere I go.
Overthinking , I love you so...

#overthinking #life #mind #love #hate #pain #strife #struggle #hardship