#pause poems on Hello Poetry

Ashlyn Yoshida Feb 2020

I feel alone in a way no one else seems to be
Despite me knowing that everyone else, too, is alone
I'm so certain I was never meant to have someone
hold me through my pain
it hurts to
even think about it half the time
I want to scream
I want to tear something to pieces
my frustration leads to fingers
tearing at my own heart
and sabotaging everything I hold dear
I've went to therapy
I take medicine
and I'm still in the same place I was before
frustrated and angry
and inexplicably sad
I can't seem to find that person in my life to take it all away, just like the movies and books
and what Mom has always told me
and I hate to admit
that I knew the whole time I hoped
for this person to arrive
that I knew it wasn't true
that I was just lying
I've thought so hard about these things and yet
admitting this weakness to myself is hard just in itself.
Acting on it would be useless now
trusting people
I've found
is more difficult today

#trust #pause #lost #alone #worried

Butterfly Jan 2020

On repeat

It just keeps happening

I can hit the pause button as hard as I want
But it just keeps on repeating

I should be a sleep

#repeat #pause #pauses #button #hard #hit #happening #onrepeat

solfang Dec 2019

pause

let me pause
these daydreams,
and wake up to a reality
where it was never as it seems,
and you were never there to begin

the truth hits you harder when you realise these feelings should never exist in the first place.

#pause #button #daydreams #reality #crush #presence #gone #disappearance #love #like

Steve Page Dec 2019

The Pause

I had grown out of time-outs - those imposed minutes of inward reflection, of self confrontation in wait and ponder. I had forgotten that slowing and pausing could be a productive use of time, and that eternity does indeed wait for all who have the stamina to stop the clocks and drape the mirrors.

I had instead lived for the future, passing abruptly / obliviously through the momentary present, robbing myself of the present time to consider, to discern, to consult, to learn from those like my father who had travelled further through time, having time to use the time-honoured travel method of patience.

And now, in my father's cooling presence, I stalled in an unfamiliar, unexpected hiatus between generations, and was forced to wait for what would come next.

And I paused.

#death #stop #wait #pause #father #son

Saudia R Dec 2019

headache

there are some days when it's the headache and you, not you and the headache.

just pound after pound, the core of your brain. the beat you never intended to dance to. and look at us, puppets.

like a ball on a string, our heads rattling around, unaware that heads don't rattle.

trying to push away the push of pain through pills that we pop to pop this pressure point.

but figuring out where to place the pin is the pause.

you don't want to make it worse, but if you can't make it better, best to just...not.

how do normal people function? what is this magical nirvana of blissful calm state? how does one close their eyes and sleep?

when headache likes to play, you can only hope they don't pull the string too hard.

sometime you want to drink the coffee and say **** it.

#headache #sleep #tranquility #nirvana #puppets #core #beat #dance #pause #bliss

New Age Traveller Nov 2019

I tend to enjoy the quiet

I tend to enjoy the quiet
I get so lost in the sound of my own thoughts that the world just seems to pause for the perfect amount of seconds.
May I need no more, no less.

#enjoy #quiet #pause #world #thoughts #emptiness #whisper #love #life

love is a vacuum cleaner Nov 2019

press play

I see you in music
notes are steps
closer to you
press play and
we never pause

"music" and "you" can be read as the first words of the next line

#love #music #notes #steps #closer #play #pause #see

Andrea Nov 2019

Stop

Sometimes I'd just sleep
Cause there was nothing to keep
Inside my mind
Didn't wanna die, just needed to pause

#sleep #pause #stop #sleepy #die

idiosyncrasy Sep 2019

pause

life
doesn't stop

it keeps rushing on
without me

i wish i could push pause
sometimes

so i could
figure myself out
before the moment happens
and i have to be
outside
of myself
again

but there is no pause button.

feeling dizzy

#pause #life

Steve Page Aug 2019

A Pause and a Peace

A pause
A choice of disconnection
An examination of options
An opportunity to change direction

An opening
An invitation for interruption
A deliberate contemplation
A much needed punctuation

A calming
A stilling
A waiting
A hearing

A surrender
A release
A long deep breath
And unexpected peace

Proverbs 8:34
34 Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
Luke 10:39
39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
Philippians 4:7-8
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.... whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

#pause #peace #meditation #listen #stop