#paralyzing poems on Hello Poetry

Jeremy Betts Apr 5

A brain like mine, the brain of an addict, can justify anything
Drumming up excuses that defy reasoning
Connecting dots with miles of red string
Coming to conclusions that are baffling
"The problem was this here faulty Icarus wing"
"Setting me up for failure back when I was seventeen"
Not the fact of the constant nosediving
Bracing for impact, the anticipations paralyzing
It was easier to hide it in the begining
Can't hide it now, so let's call it ageing
The lack of a fatal crash is a bit puzzling
No complaining
It's just surprising
Kinda thought I'd be death defying
'Till I became stuck in the sky flying high,
Ignoring every warning
Didn't think it possible to hit the ground running
But now I'm panicking
I didn't plan for a second half, that fact is terrifying
Far scarier than any thought of dying
I wish I was lying

©2024

#addict #justify #problems #faulty #icarus #bracing #anticipation #paralyzing #easy #fatal

PoserPersona May 2018

The Paradoxes of Anxiety

The mind and heart switch roles
          For reasons to stay untold

                               Silently screaming chest
                    Racing and quivering head

      Thoughts whip light speed modest
Body barely leaves its bed

          Unhappy for nothing
               Motivated for nothing

                    Paralyzing deadlocks,
                  Anxiety's Paradoxes

Form is supposed to be a twister or whirlwind. Hoping that's apparent before you read this lol.

#anxiety #racing #thoughts #paralyzing #paradox #screaming #deadlock #bed #cycle #unmotivated

Pineapple Isle Aug 2017

Poison

Could I write
to **** out the poison
that paralyzes me?

I'm considering adding "and makes me feel ill" at the end. I can't decide which way I like it better.

#write #writing #poison #suckoutthepoison #paralyze #paralyzes #paralyzing #paralyzed

KL Taguiam Jan 2016

Conversation: Fear

Him: "I'm afraid. Afraid of rejection."

And this is what I told him: "Then you're just subjecting yourself to something that has little or no value. Rejection is nothing but a notion. A norm. Just a word. But we are afraid of it because we give it power. Power to scare us witless. We become fools. Afraid of our own illusions. Only we can break it. Break the illusion, break the fear, break the norm, break rejection."

I just want to help him realize that fear won't do you any good. It will just paralyze you and make you numb. I don't want that. I want him and other people to see beyond fear and look at something far more beautiful.

#break #rejection #illusion #notion #norm #paralyzing

WickedHope Feb 2015

Colors Change When You Wait Too Long To Pick Up The Paintprush

The sky bleeds into my hair
Sunset leaks into my eyes
In this moment I look changed
He asked me to stay in this
Moment with so many words
Where my hair is more gold
My eyes are caramel not black
And my smile shines bright
But I let the sun slip down past
The horizon because I was
Afraid so he left for his future
While I stayed drowning in
Our past now I don't want to let
It slip away this time,
*into the snow...

Your twentieth birthday is soon
and I'm no longer your favorite one to lie to.

#love #fear #lost #new #color #old #snow #sunset #paralyzing

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