#progress poems on Hello Poetry

Coraline Hatter Aug 2018

One day, 6 years ago
suddenly it was there
I didn't see it coming
it crawled under my skin
into my head
settled in my thoughts

One day, 6 years ago
I started to feel
how no one should feel
ugly
unworthy
unlovable
suddenly I felt uncomfortable
in my forever home

One day, 6 years ago
my skin
my own body became my prison
my head
my own thoughts felt like hell

One day, 6 years ago
I stopped
eating
sleeping
I became someone
I never imagined to be

One day, 5 years ago
I somehow started to recover
I learned to be good on my own
that I don't need anybody
I recovered on my own

One day, 4 years ago
I realized
those thoughts and habits never left
but it didn't matter
I somehow managed to live with them

One day, 3 years ago
those thoughts became worse
I hid them
no one was allowed to see all this
all this **** that's going on in my head

One day, 2 years ago
I lost every loved one
I felt like I'm losing myself
still with a smile on my face

One day, 1 year ago
I realized how bad i became again
I realized I never truly recovered
my mind was hell itself

One day, today
I haven't become better
but that is not my worst
I want to become better
I truly want to become better.

bet no one's gonna read all this
if you made it this far, I'm sure you think I'm dumb.

#depression #anxiety #anorexia #ed #healing #insomnia #progress

Alvira Perdita Aug 2018

life, i suppose.

thinking, hoping, wondering.
for so long it was a question of
when life would begin to progress
forward - until now, when it is
happening.

am i ready? can i handle this?
for so long i'd only dreamed of
the mere possibility to the point
that, perhaps, i never believed
it would happen.

and now, here i sit. wondering.
everything i've been waiting for,
everything i've been working towards.
every day when i thought i couldn't go
on, every night when i didn't want to;
the dream was all that held me.

and now it is here. and i sit.
wondering.
am i ready?

apparently impossible to please.

#life #moving #progress #goingforward #fear #anxiety

Ines Rose Jul 2018

When you see me in Paris

It’s people who go way back
That won’t give me a call back
I left them back in Philly
Left them in my old city

It’s people who go way back
But I don’t want to backtrack
Some of them will grow and glow
Others will reap what they sow

It’s people who go way back
And yet I have to fall back
We could have stacked together
And been best friends forever

It’s people who go way back,
That disappeared like yik yak
Please keep that same energy
Quand tu me voit sur Paris

Quand tu me voit sur Paris = When you see me in Paris
I've been battling with this one since January.
Yes I know it's "There are". The AAVE is on purpose.

#friends #friendship #real #old #growth #getting #older #adulthood #change #progress

Ciara Jones Jul 2018

A Mother's Forgiven Love

You've brought me down and left me in a broken state. You've lifted me up and made me feel ways in which others cannot relate. I keep telling myself for you, it's never too late. With every new beginning, there's something hard we always have to face. We take steps further into life and leave others confused, without a trace. Many have told you to slow down your pace, but I have been there to defend you in many ways. I have hoped and wished that you would understand me, even today. But maybe it's you, along with others that will never be able to relate. You've taught me helping others is my fate, and that is something I'm thankful for, without debate.

#mother #daughter #broken #lift #state #emotion #feeling #progress #fate #debate

Fox Brandon Briggs Jul 2018

Traveled

The distance from my side of the bed used to be too far
But now we're sleeping separately miles apart
Fall to sleep to the smell of detergent
Rather than my scent upon your sheets
I know we both did wrong
But I wish the best for you now.

#positive #love #happy #progress #sad

Krishnapriya Jul 2018

My heart bleeds

My heart bleeds
For the trees
We cut
For us
For metro and highways
To join the global race
Of frantic

Helpless I throw
These words into space
Pray for natures’s grace
and
Forgiveness

I wonder
if our children’s children’s children
Will tell their
children’s children’s children

Once upon a time on Earth
There were trees
birds and bumble bees

You can see them even now
In the prehistoric 2-D movies

They are cutting gorgeous old trees everywhere in our city to make a brand new metro to help ease traffic - but it is absolutely heart breaking to see it.

#trees #nature #earth #progress #speed

Tyler Matthew Jul 2018

Direction

You cannot move
the river − only
the boat.

#poet #poem #poetry #poems #river #boat #progress #resistance #natural #force

Aa Harvey Jul 2018

You give me life

You give me life

You give me all that I need to be.
You turn me into someone I should always have been.
If there is ever anything that you need,
Then I will share with you my everything.

If you would try as much as I promise to,
Then maybe you and I could make it through.
You give me the push I need to try to improve.
I will be honest and share with you all of my truth’s.

You give me the life that I always wanted.
I want to change into what you want me to be;
All that which you ever dreamed.
Let destiny decide if we are meant to be.
I think the two of us together could become anything.

There are no limits to how high you and I could rise.
You take me with you as you climb to new heights.
With you at my side I believe we could fly.
If love is endless, then this feeling I have for you will never die.

(C)2017 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.

#love #progress #relationships #truth #change #us #flying #endlesslove

skyler Jun 2018

progress

i.
love bites as dark as the circles under my eyes like tags on my body mimicking name brands to fake worth that's not there

ii.
hello love to pretty strangers to have soft words fill the loud silence between empty bodies

iii.
flinching from bumping into someone in the store and shrinking away from a strangers smile because the feeling of being used echos beneath your skin

iv.
finding yourself comparing new people to the old and letting your heart break when they don't compare

v.
finding yourself glowing when the sun is high then finding yourself high and lonely with the stars

s.s

#love #sad #happy #time #progress

nawke Jun 2018

Progress

Man spends most his time
fuelling furnace of progress
-- by fighting fires.

Senryu Haiku

#firefighting #progress