#warning poems on Hello Poetry

tierney morris Dec 2020

I avoid my reflection because the person who looks back at me is pale and looks dead
The body I once saw looking back at me no longer feels like my own
At 3am I am standing there staring with my hand tracing my skin
I wonder why Ive never felt like my body was home
Because my reflection is no longer mine it belongs to you
The demons in my head
Food is scary and the thought of it makes me sick
When I don't eat the person staring back at me morphs again
To be someone who's dropped weight and needs to eat more
But I can't bring myself to
Because if I do the person looking back changes soon after
And I haven't figured out how to look back at them
I can't identify with the person in that mirror and I can't remember a time I have
They've always looked back at me different
And Ive never seen life in those eyes
Maybe one day it'll change and maybe it wont
But for now I avoid my reflection
Because I'm scared of who looks back

Tw// Mentions of food and eating disorders
-> To clarify: I'm professionally diagnosed, not self diagnosed, and have been for almost 2 years, and this is my own experiences and will not be the same for everyone. I've had therapy and blood tests and I'm recovering slowly but surely. I'm diagnosed with (severe) Body Dysmorphia and my relationship with food is greatly damaged, but I'm looking into getting professional help in a ward when I finish school next year.

Thank you for reading :)

#trigger #warning

arCamm Dec 2020

“Warning”

Like any other Friday
I wake up early
get ready and
go work

but...

today,
I heard them,
and paused as I took
that first step out of the front door

the screams of my ancestors,

the desperate plea from
wrongly accused men,

the last words and breathe
of every black man,
woman,
and child
murdered in cold blood...

I heard their warning.
“Don’t go.”

I called off work.

- a.r.Camm

As a black man in America, it is common knowledge that as soon as I take a step outside, I am in danger. Justice in this country is non-existent (as if it ever existed in the first place for my people).

Thank you, ancestors.
for the warning.

#black #lives #matter #amerikka #arcamm #warning

Shattered Thoughts Dec 2020

The Warning

HEARTBREAK

BETRAYAL

PAIN

I see the warning everywhere
But I can ignore them, because,

To have my heart broken
Means for it to have been whole

To feel betrayed
Means to have trusted

To be buried in pain
Means to have been above it at one point

#heartbreak #betrayal #pain #warning #ignore #broken #heart #trust #buried

Mystic Ink Plus Dec 2020

Beware

The Greatest wisdom
Is not taught

Anyhow you will learn
With time
If you understand
What is not said

Your personal wisdom
Is not
Written in most read books
No need
To join renouned universities
You will not learn it
From the noble teachers
It may not have many audiences
It is strictly customized
Just for you

You will learn it from
The Pretenders
The Traitors
The Failures
The Haters
The Actors
When you wake up

And when I say
I once was stupid

Underline that

Genre: Observational
Theme: Questioning
Author's Note: Something out of nothing. All the questions are born out of the answers, we already have.

#nepal #questioning #beware #alert #caution #note #warning #redzone #wisdom

Philomena Dec 2020

Dreams of a future gone

Sometimes I roll over and see you laying next to me
And all of a sudden I know it's a dream
Or maybe a nightmare

The memory of your sleeping face is burned into my head
The only time you ever looked peaceful
And yet I never want to see it again

Like the cry of a banshee
It's a warning of what could have been
Or almost was

#dream #friends #love #past #warning #nightmare

Nuala Nov 2020

i said no

Can you hear me, can you feel me?
You can feel me
purple spiderwebs mark my *******
proving that you can
so if you can feel me why can't you hear me
i think i said no
i said no
but you're invading me still
unwelcomed visitor.
I closed the door and you don't have a key.
but you don't require one, do you
you have a lockpick. a lockpick on each finger.
the skeleton key on your tongue.

#tw #abuse #trigger #warning #consent #sadpoem #bruises

Sabika Nov 2020

Ignoring the Thoughts of Warning

Ignoring the thoughts of warning,
I listen to praise and ridicule,
I listen to who I seem and
Not who I am or
Who I want to be.

Ignoring the thoughts of warning,
I listen to desire and shame,
I listen to the self-evident lies
That attempt to free me from blame.

Ignoring the thoughts of warning,
Ignoring the ticking of the clock.
I delude that I have time,
And that whenever I want it will stop.
And if I ask it will extend to me its hand,
And that if I only plead,
Time shall make sure that I succeed...
Somehow.

Ignoring the thoughts of warning,
I forget my inevitable destination:
A place and time where my actions can no longer be redeemed,
A place and time
Where everything is exactly how it seemed,
And my mistakes upon mistakes
Will look out to me in shame
Behind the shoulder of my thoughts of warning
Who emphasize
That I am only to blame.

#warning #redemption #regret #thoughts #time #shame #ego #mistake #sin #judgement

Sydney Nov 2020

Please let me rest

I just want to give up but i can't for there are many people who roots for me

If i leave them, they'll cry

It won't be easy for them to forget about me

The me that i never knew

The happiness that they saw in me will be gone

Happiness that i never saw myself

All the things they loved about me will be gone

Things that i never saw myself

But if i'm not gonna end this now, how long will i suffer?

I've been suffering for a long time now, so you mean to tell i have to suffer more?

Is the pain i'm feeling right now not enough?

Oh well, since when did i became enough? Hmmm, that's right! Never in my life

Not even a single day in my life

I'm sorry i'm just tired of finding my worth

You'll understand if you're in my situation

Now that you know how hard my suffering is

Is it okay now to leave the people who believes in me?

Please tell me that that's already an enough reason

Please, let me rest

#poetry #english #warning

V Nov 2020

Just a Warning-

-That red flags, never turn green.

I had to learn it the painful way....

#relationships #warning #abuse #awarness #2020 #vent #support #help #survivor