#survive poems on Hello Poetry

Matt Bernstein Feb 2020

Dragging feet down the twisted riverbanks,
seduced by what I cannot reach.
There's an island just past the current
and I am marooned on the wrong beach

A raft of driftwood, a bridge of stones
Let slip the days from when I could not breath
Ah! but now I've been swimming for years!
And from the sand, the sky melts into the trees.

#water #survive #river #current #fight

Nik Bland Feb 2020

Secondhand Table Set

Cracked China cup
At a chipped table
Stained cloth dressing
Do you still see
Beautiful
Tell me now
As broken candles
Burn
On
Down
Broken things
See broken things
And cracks hide
Truth
I see you
This crack’ed thing
And I see you
Beautiful
Lovely you
Cracked
But not outdone
They try to
Break you
Take you
Because you’re the only
One
A cracked cup
That runneth over
But
Can still hold your
Own
Oh precious
How you’ve grown
Setting a place that
You deserve
I pray that
You are filled
Cracks only
Show
When you can’t
Hold

But I’d gladly hold
You

#cracked #experienced #hurt #love #hold #press #on #survive #strive #scars

Jay M Jan 2020

Catch-up

Running to and fro
Can't let the stress go
Assignments piled up
Due so soon
All loom over me
My impending doom

Spanish, P.E., Creative Writing,
Journalism, English, Biology
And Finally; Math
These grades I'm fighting
I can't get it done chronologically
Can't stick to one path
Scattered mind
Struggling to find
The answers I seek.

Tell me, how do I survive?
How do I thrive,
In a world where I am behind?

Working to hard,
Keeping it fresh in my mind
Making a flashcard
To help me find
What I left behind
A week and a half ago
Right out the window
Now I need to go back
Through the window
For the information I lack.

- Jay M
January 8th, 2020

I'm so stressed and I can't focus. I have so much work to catch up on from when I was absent. Wrote this in class to get the tension to ease a little so I can try to get back to work with a fresh mind.

#stress #school #assignments #survive #scattered #window #behind #help

Juno Dec 2019

It’s Love

In the end it’s love
That will save us from ourselves.
An instinct greater than us
Makes us think of someone else.

#love #someone #save #instinct #survive

hiraeth Nov 2019

living

i didn’t think i would survive
but now i realize that
after all of this existing
i'm not just alive
but living

#alive #living #survive #surviving #life

Juno Nov 2019

Lucky

We were the lucky ones;
The people who lived.
But take it for granted
Was all that we did.

#lucky #granted #lived #survive

Vic Oct 2019

More than survive

C-c-c- c'mon
C-c-c- c'mon
Go
Go

I just want to survive

(It's from Japan...)

Take
The
             Bus
Or
Walk
                    Instead

I feel my stomach filling up with
d r e a d

I wish I had the skill
To just be fine
And cool
And C h i l l

                                                                          I don't wanna be a HERO

I follow my own  r u l e s
Have my own  t o o l s

I just wanna survive

Dangerous.
Navigate.                         Halls.

~Christine~
Christine
C h r i s t i n e

                         Micheal?

It's a sign up sheet for getting called
GAY

~[-=*^}
At least it's     ...progress

C'mon
More than
                                                                     Survive

I was just tryna get to my lo-

#survive #bmc #musical #visualpoetry

Kayla Gallant Sep 2019

Break Me

Tear me apart

Smash me to pieces

Release the tension

You know you have the will

Inside your swollen fist

You hold my destiny

only the broken know how to survive

#broken #lost #souls #tension #destiny #inside #pieces #survive