#convince
Those Often streaking through your mind,
Messages, visions, ideas,
Repeats come back, re-runs at times.
Everyone can do many things,
Get past the excuses, and those white lies,
Set the water bottle, and cell phone down,
Free your hands up, pick your interest, a little effort try.
Have confidence in yourself,
Forget about what others think,
Their comments are lame,
Unless they can do better,
Faster than you can wink.
Think positive, convince yourself you can,
There is so much more for every one in this life,
The hardest part is getting started, make time in your daily plans.
This life is a one-time visit, no one can ask for extended stay,
Look at the time you waste, what did you learn new today?
Never doubt yourself, show the confidence you have to others, in everyway.
The Original Tom Maxwell / poems© 05/05/2026 AD Philosopher /Polymath
May 5
May 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM UTC
A lot of noise
are knocking inside my head
That bitter noise
slap my hypothalamus
Am out of emotions.
But that better noise
Hit my cerebrum
Trying to convince me
That bitter will getting sweeter.
Jul 26, 2020
Jul 26, 2020 at 10:19 AM UTC
Oh how I hate art!
So much noise
And false pretenses,
Such undeserved poise
For those vain promises.
Sure, in everything there’s a message,
Yes, anything you want to acknowledge.
How I hate art!
For it is far too fragile
To dare play so smart
How I hate art!
Oh how I hate art!
Whether I’m missing the point
Or whether there was none;
Whether it isn't what it ain’t
Or whether it’s just for fun.
How I hate art!
For it cannot do otherwise
Than state the obvious
And pretend to be wise.
Sure, you’ve convinced more than a few;
Yes, they’ve all grasped your great value.
How I hate art!
The cliche, the glamour
The whole thing and the part,
Oh how I hate art!
Jul 19, 2020
Jul 19, 2020 at 2:51 AM UTC
You’ve obviously proven that you can’t be trusted
Said our love’s forever until you had enough of it
Left to convince myself you’re not coming back
Like I convinced myself of the love you had
Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020 at 9:26 PM UTC
Politics - what is this?
Everybody wants to convince us that their opinion is the right one.
There is nothing like one right way.
Many ways lead to the goal.
People try to explain the world to us.
But what if we want to experience all of that by ourselves.
All ways may be right for us and our future.
Our life - our future - it belongs to us and nobody else.
May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020 at 10:57 AM UTC
My mind makes me believe something
other than my reality.
I am surrounded by loved ones,
Yet I feel so unloved.
I deserve to be happy,
yet I am convinced otherwise.
You see these chemicals in my brain,
the thoughts that are generated
make me believe and feel
everything other than my reality.
Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 4:15 PM UTC
You say you love me and that I am everything you want and make you truly happy
I cannot tell if you are trying to convince me of those words
Or yourself
Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 4:23 PM UTC
i am not powerful
stop trying to convince me that
there is something to live for
because at the end of the day
i have been through it all
i can see it for myself
there is nothing to be grateful for
i’d be lying if i said
things will get better
it’s true
i am worthless
nobody can tell me that
i have a purpose,
you see
i am convinced
happiness is not for me
i was told by many
things are not always as they appear to be
(now read from bottom to top)
- sheera al-hassani
@sailingserenity
Aug 18, 2018
Aug 18, 2018 at 3:49 PM UTC
I always feel two steps behind
No matter what the topic at hand
Even things I'm sure that I'm sure of
You can break down that certainty
Within seconds
Make me doubt the person
That I know myself to be
I dare you
Convince me that I am someone else
Because I'm stubborn until I'm afraid
Afraid to be laughed at
Afraid to be judged
Afraid to be made into a fool
So I take the initiative and laugh it off
Because declaring "I'm just an idiot",
"I don't know anything about anything"
Or simply keeping my mouth shut
Is far easier than hearing it elsewhere
Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 8:28 AM UTC
It is not the truth if I have to convince myself,
it isn't a choice if I have to make one,
it's not love if it's forced,
but is it even sadness anymore when it becomes a reality?
Jul 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018 at 3:03 PM UTC
O God !! I can't convince and
they can't feel......
Change their hearts if
You won't change my tongue
Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018 at 6:49 AM UTC
Somehow,
in the first meeting
you managed to convince me
what I needed
was you-
without any convincing
at all.
Apr 5, 2018
Apr 5, 2018 at 5:55 PM UTC
And i sail to the breadth of the sky
walk away from the star not even with goodbye
cause there's no hello at the very first
Just like the dust that passed by
yet craved by the flowers
convincing.
Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 11:35 AM UTC
She said She doesn't wanna talk
I waited for her to look back
I tried convincing her
She showed me her middle finger
I only ask you not to go blind on hatred
Be kind though we got parted
Mar 4, 2018
Mar 4, 2018 at 1:26 AM UTC
Dare I ask after your wellbeing?
When misery, woven in your face
Is all I am seeing?
Dare I align myself with you?
When we are of similar mind,
And speak nought but the truth?
Shall I be the only one,
Who every time I look back
Am the only one to do so?
Similarities convince me to do so
Disassociation convinces me otherwise
We are so alike
That neither wishes to make a move
Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016 at 1:28 AM UTC
*ive convinced
everyone
but myself
that i no longer
care*
Oct 14, 2015
Oct 14, 2015 at 12:36 PM UTC
You stumbled upon my fantasies
wen I let you look into my eyes.
You shout,
"Our reality gets better."
But how?
Convince me and
I want to be convinced.
I am ready to
give up my dreams for us.
May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC