#responsibility poems on Hello Poetry

Carl Webb II Sep 2018

immunity

responsibility isn't my strong suit.

take care of me, please, so I don't have to
make my own way. I'll adapt to what you say
never say a thing, myself,
the consequences are too dire.

if you'll help me retire and tire me more,
the more I conspire, the less I perform,
the less I inspire . . .
the more I deplore . . .

responsibility isn't my strong suit.

#responsibility

Mica Kluge Sep 2018

In the Court of One's Own Mind

We are so quick to blame the familiar.
Once fault is laid,
then the matter may as well be settled,
and it becomes someone else’s responsibility
to atone for our faults.
After all, there is nothing so unfamiliar to a man
as his own self.

This didn't actually begin its life as a poem; it was an excerpt from a novel I'm working on.

#life #love #blame #fault #responsibility #relationships #thought #ifallfromeleganceandlandwithathud

mc ish Sep 2018

an attempt at life

our fingers lace
in a vast depressing attempt to keep safe from yourself
i feel responsibility in the slits that take form in your psyche
i should learn how to stop
learn how to breathe
learn how to not
fantastic uncertainty for days unknown
does not equate misery by my shattering ribcage
please think of me again
remember my name and let me save you next time

its a Touchy Subject

#suicide #responsibility #hero #complex #savior #hurt #safe

Mohamed Nasir Aug 2018

Two Doves On A Branch

upon a branch a pair of doves sit
and doesn't bend the branch a bit

it doesn't for being light and easy
no cares weighted responsibility

be weighted by gravity pins us tie
to earth for we're not meant to fly

as human wears heavy the crown
of ******* of the appointed one

crooing on a branch the lovers sit
the branch they sit don't hurt a bit.

#birds #light #humans #responsibility #heavy #bodies #gravity #chosen #rulers #*******

Mystic Ink Plus Aug 2018

What Is Childish?

Yes
This is a diary of a child
With a biological age of 5

To this world
She may be an ordinary one
But at the age 3, she got matured
Started to identify the space
Where she can contribute

She learned,
how to take care of self, when parents are out
how to be patient, when belly left half filled
how to do parenting, when her sister cries
how to be happy in small things
how to struggle for survival

Her way of life shows
At the age of,
3, she was like 25 years responsible
4, she was like 35 years responsible
5, she is like 50 years responsible
24 hours a day, she is on duty
7 days a week

I asked myself, what is childish?
That responsible 5 years child,
passing through
Or the 50 years old,
irresponsible one?

Genre: Observational
Theme: Maturity comes with responsibility

#nepal #maturity #growth #responsibility #age #support

Angela Gregorio Apr 2018

Sleep

This time it's not the sadness
that's keeping me awake at night
But it's the responsibility
I have to face in the morning

#adulting #responsibility #growth

Stringer Jul 2018

The Golden Fleece

And Chrysomallus discarded the golden fleece, on the shadowy east,
Of the American land,
Harvested,
By charcoal calloused crimson red stained hands,

Our industry
Is heinous beyond belief
It's a surprise that we can sleep in peace

Selective memory is bittersweet

#history #agency #responsibility

Elizabeth Jul 2018

A burden I am

I was told I was a blessing although I felt I was a curse. They had to find a cure; they felt like something was missing, and that something was me. I feel like a burden with a weight too heavy to carry, too heavy to handle and too much to overcome. I feel like the unwanted insects that roam through the forest- stepped on and broken, but no one cares enough to stop. No one cares enough to do the healing. For all that I am, I am too much to handle. For all that I am, I have been labeled a burden. In a red striped shirt and blue Levi’s jeans I am all that I am, a burden indeed.

”you aren't a liability”

#liability #responsibility #burden #heavy #heart