#too poems on Hello Poetry

Buckley Grace Dec 2017

I stay up till 2 am,
So my eyelids shut as quickly as possible,
So I don’t have to think.
My memories are the trigger,
My thoughts are the bullet,
My tears are the pain.

#depression #anxiety #sad #poems #strong #pain #tears #me #too

Lin Dec 2017

The Other Version of Icarus’s Story

They say
That Icarus flew too high
That he fell from the sky
But don’t they know
What would’ve happened
If he flew too low?
His wings would rust
Next to the ocean below
That is cause
If you fly too low
You may break your soul

For those that don’t know, Icarus and his dad were trapped in a locked room in a maze. His father made them both a pair of wings made of metal and wax. His father warned Icarus not to fly too high or his wings would melt. He also warned Icarus not to fly too low or his wings would rust from the spray of the ocean below. Icarus flew too high and the wax melted. The only times I hear people use it is when they are trying to say they should fly under the radar. I say if you fly too low under the radar, you can’t flap your wings and will crash.

#icarus #mythology #fly #too #low #poem #poetry

Matthew S Dec 2017

Me Too

I was just a child
No more than 8 years old,
When you touched me
You ripped off the clothes i had on
And tried to take my virginity
I struggled
And struggled
Untill i got free from the
Cheap beer breath
And horrifying monster of a man
That you have become

I ran into the bathroom
And hid
Until my cousin
The one you were supposed to have been in love with
Came home to a crying mess of an 8 year old
Who was in the bathroom
Hiding from the demon

I didnt tell anyone for years
I didnt feel like i could
After all
You didnt take my virginity away
But you took everything else away from me

You took my trust away
You ruined my self esteem
You took your stained knife and tore me too pieces
You took away my peace of mind
And instaled the fear of being touched by you again
Touched by anyone again
A fear so bad that
I didnt tell anyone about you
Until you were gone

Yet some people tell me
My mom,
My "friends",
The media,
Just because
I was able to pull away
Just because i was able to keep my virginity
I cant feel this pain
That i shouldn't
And that the ones who had such a precious thing
Taken away from them deserve to feel it
To be open about it

So for years i stood silent
While others spoke up
Because im a person
Who was molested
But im done being controlled
So i stand with my fellow broken men and women
And chant

"Me too!"

I felt like i needed to get this off my chest. For years i felt like i couldnt say anything about being molested because their was alwayd someone saying "well my pain is bigger than your pain!" "well i was ***** so im worse off than you!". Why is this a thing? Why do people feel the need to tell people who were molested that since they "didnt have their virginity taken away" they were better off? For years i cried myself to sleep, and for years i could imagine his hands still on me but yet im not supposed to be upset about that?
I dont get it.
Im not trying to say "oh people who are ***** need to shut up" or "blah blah my pain is worse blah blah", im just saying that people who were molested should not be critisized for speaking up, neither should people who were *****. **** and molestation are both terrible and it needs to stop.
Pronto.

#molestation #me #too

Triscuit Dec 2017

Never Again

Never again will I walk those floors, or will I see the stars in your eyes.
The rooftop romance we once had will dissipate into a soiled garment on the floor, one I left there months before.
You left me in the winter, and I met you years ago in the hot summer scape.
I've evaded this fear too many times until I realized my love was gone and yours was too late.
Never again.

I love you. But you're not coming back, and I don't want you to.

#loss #never #again #too #late #love #sad #gone #break #house

Gowtham Ganni Dec 2017

"Love you too"

"Love you too"
said leman
to her hubby

#haiku #love #leman #too

Mohamed Nasir Nov 2017

I Dream Of Jeannie

She's a crazy blonde and she's funny
She can do no right and she can do no wrong
An astronaut and a 2000 year old genie
In a bottle and somehow they've to get along

Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman are the stars
Of the show hilarious in awkward moments
"Is my master upset with me?" She always asks
Yet coy when he can get whatever he wants

Winks and nobs transformed in the blink of an eye
Appear or disappear "your wish is my command"
Or "master I'm at your service." She'd say but sly
Pony tailed girlish genie often can't comprehend

Master's orders disobeyed as he acts a fool
Uncorrupted innocently gazed hands in my chin
On deserted island genie ******* clad beautiful
I was too young to know to wish for to imagine

Original Black and White 1965 tv sitcom that I enjoyed watching so much.

#genie #magic #funny #astronaut #tv #show #sitcom #too #young #to

Brokewench Nov 2017

Love, a book returned unread

You didn’t turn the pages and you refused to look past the cover
The dark overtones and jagged edges repulsed you
It wasn’t flat. It wasn’t cut and dry
You wanted simplicity and the book was anything but that
You left it laying about your house.
A landing spot for your coffee mug on your way out the door
A place to toss your keys as you dispersed your belongings around the house
This book had you taken the time to open it would’ve intrigued you
Piqued your interest
Caught your attention
Left you holding your breath as you turned the pages
Had you opened the book you’d have found exactly what you thought you had been missing
Had you opened the book you’d have been left, rivited by the last page
You’d have reread the last 4 pages over and over becuase you weren’t ready for it to end.
But instead you judged it
And the cover alone scared you
Do you realize you didn’t even get to the good part?
You missed the best parts and you aren’t even aware
How do you miss something you never had?
Do you feel the regret wafting in like a Still breeze, you don’t know what you had
Or maybe you did, maybe the cover was all you needed to see. Maybe that was enough
Maybe leaving this stone unturned, that page unread, this book unopened was exactly what you needed.
You didn’t keep the book because you knew you’d never see the words it held between its dark covers
You jammed in into the drop slot outside a library it didn’t even belong to.
Anxious to rid yourself from the feeling of impending emotions
Desperate not to feel, not to give in, not to let the middle precede the last
I wish you would’ve opened the book
Not to the first page, not even to the middle. I’d have settled for the last page.
Becuase it’s there where I finally got it together.
It’s there that I laid it all bare, a night sky open for All to see. It’s there that I sewed a piece of myself into the words. It’s there that I’d have taken your breathe away and stolen your heart.
But again, these are all just words trapped in a book you returned. unread.

Books never were your thing.

#love #read #thoughts #too #heavy #to #hold