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#impulsive
You long for affection The soft voice Admiring your nothings Thinking you are special A master of attraction Leaving no choice A virtual hugging Alluring, lethal You cut The victim gone... Suffer!
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Apr 26
Apr 26, 2026 at 4:18 AM UTC
HEART SLITTER
Why can’t I stop? Moving, clicking, pressing, Picking, biting, I need to, have to Am I too much? Too loud? To open? Oh, I messed up, Too impatient to talk Too impatient Why can’t I wait? Tapping my leg, hand, Pressing my chances I need to think, “Sure, I’ll do it” I don’t want to, Why didn’t I think? Where has my energy gone? Why am I restless? I’m tired, pent up? Too active, lethargic.
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Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM UTC
AuDHD(P2)
Mania feels good when it battles the sadness, gives me the strength to get off of this mattress My hair gets a wash and my make up gets done, I can giggle and laugh and look forward to fun What project to do? How can I change my room? Maybe I'll cut my hair or get a new tattoo Shopping! That'll be fun, need some new outfits to wear in the sun, or even the moon I'm feeling manic I won't be sleeping anytime soon Wait now- slow down I need to process I need to feel these feelings, not go on a distracting side quest But my thoughts are poems and my legs are restless Maybe one distraction won't hurt, maybe it'll pull me out of this mess
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May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM UTC
Side Quest Queen
Time has a fickle memory Such oft it o’erlaps Deja vu, of the lyric — That Time itself — entraps. Devours the page — engorged ‘Til you are paper-forged Drowned — heady, in pretty epithet, Losing Time you can’t afford. You can’t unbind the shackles For Time has lost the key – Better to live a fleeting bliss Than a prolonged misery.
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Nov 24, 2024
Nov 24, 2024 at 6:01 AM UTC
Never Trust Tomorrow
I could feel your skin moving while you were thrusting Couldn’t see your eyes They were open Piercing holes through the walls of my memory I knew it was wrong, the wrong place to be We were both angry and lonely and you’d been inside before, me unwilling And you got away. Tragically bonded, all I wanted from you was familiar bad *** It went by so fast I thought I was dying But you never crashed until in the kitchen, crying I could feel the glass break like I was the aluminum at the bottom of the sink swallowing the whisky And it burned the whole way down as you jogged my memory of your past use of force I got away this time lost in the night as you were screaming and begging for familiar bad ***
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Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024 at 10:43 PM UTC
bad ***
I sit in stillness, My soul scrapping at my skin trying to break through. No matter the self care or the nourishment I feed my soul, It still resides. My flesh just a blanket for what lies within. I sweat, I eat, I smoke, But I will never be able to escape the forever sugar rush.
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Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020 at 8:54 PM UTC
Mania
The reckless thoughts of youth: Never shall I deny them to you. Live life as you see prudent But live it with me included.
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May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020 at 8:54 PM UTC
Untitled
A ocean, an urge A waterfall all ready to pour out. But not a single drop trickles down. It's all in drowning and swimming; gasping and breathing ; emotional and impulsive. I am crying words, but there are no tears.
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Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 9:14 AM UTC
I Shed Words, Not Tears
Impulsivity, I am hopelessly in love with you. Buy the shoes. Ditch school. Kiss her. Drive 30 minutes for french fries Kiss him. Buy 18 pet snails. Eat the octopus tacos. In acting class they told me to follow my impulses. At home they told me not to. A blessing and a curse might land me in a hearse But I’m living Today I wrote a letter to someone I love and I’m going to send it Tomorrow I might stay home and cook pasta, or maybe I’ll drive to Portland. Pack only a few T-shirts and my terrifying overabundance of freedom Are you proud? I’ve been told not to be so impulsive. To think more rationally. To weigh the consequences. “You’ll regret it!” But the greatest regret I’ve ever felt is having not done anything about something that is my everything. I know I’m not an idiot. I’ve told myself this for years and I’ll stick to it, but there will never be a day when my mind defeats my gut. Sometimes it means I’m irresponsible. Unpredictable. Messy. Slutty. “Who are you anyway?” I have a secret -I don’t know who I am And if I’m lucky, I never will. You, my impulsivity, are to blame and to thank for that.
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Nov 10, 2018
Nov 10, 2018 at 1:36 PM UTC
An Ode to Impulsivity
You all think that I am doing okay, All thanks to the smile on my face, But it's been thirty years of this fake **** You'd think by now you'd see through it, But no, 3 decades and I can still put on a show, Better than an actor, and I don't need all that blow, I can get by on anything I can find, And if I don't have anything to scavange on hand, Well there's always the internet, Because I will put my life on the line for a fix, If I'm really in need, and it should scare you, It should freak me out, but I'm calm here alone, Don't tell me it'll get better, That line doesn't get easier, It doesn't age like fine wine, Just rots like a coffin full of bones, Instructing me to take my meds, like that will help? When it hasn't done **** in the past, Isn't gonna score you points when I'm looking down the barrel, Of a gun of my own making, And yes, I'll still be faking, That 10 watt smile tomorrow when I see you, Cause that's just what I ******* do, Oh, please don't be mad when you find out it's all a lie, Because honestly you should've been able to find, The cracks in my mask, they're bigger than China, And the nightmares in there will seep out and find ya, After I've had a bottle of wine or tequila or two, I'll let you know every bad deed I've ever let them do, Don't tell me it'll get better, That line doesn't get easier, It doesn't age like fine wine, Just rots like a coffin full of bones.
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Feb 1, 2019
Feb 1, 2019 at 11:17 PM UTC
I Can Fake Happiness, Better Than Some ******* Can Fake *******
I’m a hopeless romantic And for that reason, I ignore the warnings in my head The ones that say that i’m Just repeating history. You see, Most people burn themselves And learn to move further away from the flames. I, however, burn myself Mumble some profanity And continue to feed the fire.
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Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 8:23 PM UTC
Figuring it out
I'm a little impulsive And guess what... I don't give a f***.
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Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 5:15 PM UTC
Impulsive
Like wings on the thumb; If you pay attention, they flutter in your chest Like waves on the lips; Tumultuous, pummeling, magnetizing, Still. And then words, not a covenant, but a confirmation of intentions Like the nuzzle of a rabbit, push 1 2 3 And part for breath to move through
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 9:26 PM UTC
Lips
I feel it coming The rush of recklessness The active adrenaline As it surges through my body I may fall But I will rise And continue on Only one life to live May it be my last As I run past Towards the setting sun Youth is like a day Early brightness That dies out like a star
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Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 3:48 PM UTC
youth
Everything begins with I, Impulsivity and Indecisiveness. These two words go together, my Impulsivity and Indecisiveness. They make me say or not be able to, Impulsivity and Indecisiveness. They usually come in a pair, the two, Impulsivity and Indecisiveness. I know that they will go away, Impulsivity and Indecisiveness. But some days they just flood my brain, Impulsivity and Indecisiveness.
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Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 at 3:23 PM UTC
Impulsivity and Indecisiveness
I’d rather be used than to be left alone. I’ll let them fulfill their desires, Sense all of their sensations, While I put on an act. Every man will touch me in different ways, But no one will make me feel the same. Since my emotions are long gone, Maybe this is the only way I will feel again. I remind myself how sacred my body is, Yet I let people walk all over it like The trails in the parks. It gives them joy and comfort, But over time I will be the one To decay and I will need to be replaced. It’s hard to walk on the trails in the winter Since it gets cold and dark so quickly. People won’t want to stay very long. But don’t worry, they’ll be coming back Soon enough when everything starts To blossom in the spring time. n.n
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 12:46 PM UTC
used
my mouth is full of burning candles and hot wax seeps from between my teeth. my tongue knows nothing but rage and fire and i don’t know whether to swallow this flame and choke on the smoke until the heat burns holes in my throat, or to spit it out and watch everything around me burn down. — impulse control
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Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 2:26 PM UTC
impulse control
This is the sign you’ve been looking for. So live darling. Live reckless and brazen. Don’t you dare hide how you feel & never try to meet the set standards. Don’t think, just do. Forget how it’s ‘supposed’ to go, and all that could go wrong. Disregard all the illogical cause and effects Society determines. Ignore the 99% likely outcome and go after that 1% with everything you’ve got, kid. ‘Cause if something or someone makes you happy or gives you a sorta feeling you can’t explain, even if it’s just for a little while- ignore all the ‘advice’ & the whole doing the ‘right’ thing, and hold on to it till your lungs give out, regardless of what form you get it in. Here’s the truth darling; life’s too short for norms and logic. Too short to hide your feelings and god knows, way too short to spend even a second unhappy & restrained due to fear and the abstract ideas that things are meant to go a certain way. So if you love someone, scream it at the top of your lungs, and if you feel like crying, collapse and shatter. Live impulsively because there’s nothing purer than the desires of the heart. -c.j.m
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Jul 18, 2018
Jul 18, 2018 at 9:01 PM UTC
Don’t ignore the sign, kid.
i do not speak like a poet. my words are clumsy and callous and i often trip over my own tongue. there is no beauty to my words or thought to my form, and my voice does not fall soft and slow like honey song, drizzled sweetly into willing ears. rather it is raspy and quick-tongued, laced with mispronounced words and oddly said accents. my sentences race ragged and jumpy, with capricious contours and half-finished phrases, and i often lose my train of thought. impulsive and unrefined, i do not speak like a poet. — but on paper i am a different person
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 1:31 AM UTC
i do not speak like a poet
An ocean; an urge A waterfall all ready to pour out But not a single drop trickles down. It’s all in drowning and swimming; gasping and breathing; emotional and impulsive. I am crying words, for there are no tears.
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Feb 20, 2018
Feb 20, 2018 at 3:59 AM UTC
Emotional
There were nightmares about you and then there were dreams that made me cry with joy. You had the most perfect smile. You had the most perfect net to catch me in. There were memories flooding my brain every night and then there was the moment I thought I could swim to the top of them only to drown. You were making it hard to breathe. You were making it hard to let you go. I wanted so badly to run to the other side of the country and demand that you hashed things out with me. I wanted to use a couple plays from your book of tricks but I knew that my plays would be flawed and we would lose the game. My friends told me I was too angry to start discussing things right now. My friends told me I was too impulsive and maybe they were right. But, baby, love makes you do crazy things. And, baby, I am crazy about you.
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Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 at 3:14 PM UTC
Baby, I'm crazy.