#pressure poems on Hello Poetry

NeroameeAlucard Mar 2016

The pressure to please
Is a CID, Creatively Induced disease
It hurts when you pour
Your heart and soul into your art
And the audience rejects it
It feels like a bullet tearing you apart

The self doubt sets in
"What did I do wrong? "
Can't they see what's within?"
"Am i losing my way? "
"Should I give up today? "

So to offset this problem be your own solution
Understand that you can't please everyone, and to try is a date with a mental institution
Just do what you love, and others will see the glow
Now when you've become great, all but you will know

#thinking #pressure #observation

Adellebee Feb 2016

I used to

I am a shell
Someone I used to know
A memory of a shattered soul

I used to be someone
Who had something to say
Someone had an opinon

I used to see the day
Sunlight, on my face
The clue clouds
And even sometimes, the rain

I used to

I am a shell now
So many burns and horror stories
So many heartbreaks
My chest of drawers
My infinite sorrows
I let them go unnoticed

They never see the surface
I hide them on purpose

I am shell now
An empty home
Looking for a new place
A new place to hang my hat
And loved

#heartbreak #feelings #broken #words #alone #scared #shell #heartache #pressure #toughtimes

m i a Feb 2016

[to: everyone who pressures me]

'I WISH YOU WOULD ACTUALLY CARE,

I WISH YOU WOULD STOP POLLUTING THE AIR WITH YOUR CIGARETTES,

I WISH THE LITTLE GIRL WITH BURRETS IN HER HAIR WOULD COME BACK,

I WISH THAT YOU WOULDN'T LACK IN YOUR STUDIES,

AND STOP HANGING WITH YOUR BUDDIES'

to the people who pressure me,

does it look like i'm a star who should be wished upon?

i don't know if you can see, but sadly

i wake up everyday at dawn

just like you,

because im human too.

i am not just some piece of flesh who

will listen to every order you give me,

i will take risks,

and listen to my heart when its at stake

and i will jump into many lakes,

that are filled with loads of mistakes,

no, i am not going to be perfect or fake,

but yes, i will be a rebel and skate

across all of this stress you've given me,

and then drink my fears away with tea,

so to the people who pressure me;

don't you see,
that i'm not
just some star
to be wished upon?
i am me.
you are you.
we're both human.
so please treat
me like one.

to the people who are pressured so much. <3

#sad #pain #teen #stress #letter #pressure

GM Feb 2016

Pressure

Skin tingles
Blood boils
Life flashes
Burning midnight oil

Eyes twitching
Fingers scratching
Feet tapping
Tossing and turning

Pressure for perfection
Mind racing
Body pacing
Criticising every inch

Panic set
Calm exterior
Pressure
Pressure
Pressure
Of feeling inferior

#depression #mind #body #pressure #criticism

Breanna Stockham Feb 2016

I'm a Little Too...

I'm a little too
Excitable
Or at least
That's what I'm told
Too positive
With my glass half full
Too happy, too many
Smiles, I know

I'm too naive
Too blind, unaware
To know what
Life's about
I'm too busy
Floating on air
To remember
The pain of the ground

You think I don't know
The pressure and strain
Of the final string
Of a splitting rope?
I've ripped, I've snapped
I have no less pain
But one thing I do have
Is hope

Well my glass isn't half full
Its overflowing
My rose colored glasses
Don't leave my eyes
I am not too much
Of anything
Except too good
At finding where hope hides

#pain #hope #happiness #positive #naive #negative #pressure #full #overflowing

Mark Lecuona Feb 2016

A Good Girl

She passes us by
But she doesn’t know we're right here
She’s been living a lie
Taught that perfection will bring her near
Nearer to God
And all the things this earth cannot provide

The rising night pearl
Inside a giant shell that never opens
Just like a beautiful girl
Our watching eyes like needles and pins
Pricking her skin
And all the things that she can no longer hide

She was a good girl
But good does not always see light
They made her live their life
It became an empty way to live
Even though they told her it was full

She fell into a trap
Nothing left but darkness to avoid
She thought she had a map
They said only the next life could be enjoyed
But she only could see the night
That’s how she knew she's still inside

Her parents called her
They thought she was going to make it
She became a soul they could no longer stir
What her fears came to admit
Scared them
Their desires she could no longer ride

She was a good girl
But she couldn’t smile anymore
Her mother kept asking her why
She was pleasing somebody but not herself
She was a sheep wearing everybody else's wool

Song lyrics.....An acquaintance revealed that their child was depressed and failing even though she was raised in a God-fearing, high achieving home... I'm not surprised by this... I think too much pressure and preparation can be a path to disillusionment in this day and age.

#depression #perfection #pressure

xmxrgxncy Feb 2016

Almost

I almost said it.

But it wouldn't have been saying it.

Why am I such a coward......

No pressure?

Almost used the l word but I wanna say it in person rather than over text....ugh. Struggle is real:/

#love #struggle #pressure #almost #john

Tess Calogaras Nov 2015

Spilling lines

Did he try to wake you
as you pretended to doze?
Hold you in his arms as he whispered
lines stolen from old books
he said were his own.
Did you let him in
just to shut his big fat mouth
spilling lines
like cokeheads
snorting powder
choking on
*****.
His ****** hands
running
over your body.
I thought I told you no.
You say
You comprehend
as you
still
hold my body against your own.
I knew I did not want it
as I
put the razor down
let the hair on my skin
grow furry against sheets
like weeds cumbering dirt
hindered growing
to a mere stand
still.
Get off of me
I thought I told you
No.

#poem #feelings #hurt #power #*** #**** #teenagers #pressure #sexuality

DaSH the Hopeful Feb 2016

The Walls

Sometimes I look at it and see my father
Sometimes, my addictions,
Or my peers.
Other times I see it as a product of circumstance
And still others as a conscious choice.

*But no matter what I see, its always in my way. That never changes.

#love #hate #trapped #selfimage #weight #pressure #judgement #prejudice #obstacle

Chloe Chapman Feb 2016

Panic

Panic crept up to me,
Filling my mind with images of them pulling out my body,
Festered and decaying.
Images of slow starvation. Of disease and disintegrated skin.
My breath faltered,
I gasped for air but it got caught in my throat,
Hot and humid,
The cloying stench of mold.

I could feel my heart in my head,
Rushing through my ears,
Every beat ripping my chest open,
Like the pressure would burst my veins.
Reason fled.
Rationality ran.

The walls closed in on my mind,
The water rushed up and choked my hope,
Impenetrable dark, weighing on my shoulders,
Pulling me down. Suffocating me.
Filling my mouth,
My nose,
My mind.

The moss beneath my hands crawled up my skin,
Images of drowning in insects flew through my brain.
Crawling in to my mouth,
The sockets of my eyes.
I screamed.

I screamed and I screamed,
My voice broke and still I screamed,
Silent peals of anguish,
The sound rough and course, grating against my throat.
Ripping apart the silence.

Frantically I tried to scramble up the rough stones.
Shredding my fingers,
My hands were covered in blood and grime.
Panic faded into Pain.
Pain to numbness.
I retreated into my mind.

Once I got stuck in a well, about one meter across and five deep. thigh deep water and mold up the sides. I was sure I was going to die there. This is what I felt.

#fear #pain #panic #pressure #decay #claustrophobia #suffocate #mold #shredd