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#indecisive
Should I stay or should I go? My universal ultimatum. I loved him for a thousand years, but this second? I think I hate him. Make or break, I’ve got to run– I fear it’s time to go. His hands are soft but loaded guns, yet his eyes? They make my heart rate slow. Here I stand amidst the flames with two routes in my path: reach for the extinguisher or run– **** the aftermath. If loving a man is explosion and being alone is peace, why stay until I lose myself when it’s easier to retreat? So I stand here in the doorway of this house we built on flames, and right when I’m about to lock it– Would you believe he yelled my ******* name?
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM UTC
The Doorway
I dream in color yet Think in black and white, But grey always soaks it all.
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Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM UTC
The Grey Room
Things move along before I’ve made up my mind, a railway over an ocean, and I’m along for the ride. Not quite willing, but also not captive, expected to go with the flow and remain well-adapted. Drivers impatient and maps outdated, planning my own route is slow and underappreciated. I’m ushered left and shoved to the right, an indecisive death- but I float on alright. I don’t know that I want to be on this train, but I’m already here, I’m expected to stay. Walking and talking should be banned for me, once I look up, all new surroundings I see. Am I the bad guy for abandoning ship, when I never said yes, but I was complacent?
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM UTC
Passenger
Do I reach out and plead my case? Or Let It Go...
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Jun 6, 2025
Jun 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM UTC
Snippets #11
I'll fold the laundry and laugh with my sisters, maybe take my daughter for a walk. I'll pick up the same toys one thousand times and hear "Hey mom look at me", and I'll smile everytime. It's a day like any other to everyone but me, Yet I keep it to myself. My broken heart won't ruin their stories, their laughter, their play, I'll bottle it up and keep going about my day.
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May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM UTC
Cry Quietly
Ill pack up your things, Toss them in the yard, Your clothes and my rings, I'll throw them so ******* far You don't have to worry, They'll be back in their places tomorrow, I'll make you breakfast I'm sorry, I know better than to act on my sorrow The comings days will be fine, A few weeks of apologetic bliss, I know you'll keep crossing my boundary line, But **** I crave your venomous kiss
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May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM UTC
Boxes and Bags
Do I go crazy or have I always been here? Chaos is the comfort, the peace causes panic None of it makes sense, Could I be going manic? I'm craving a quiet mind, No thoughts, no racing to save the day, But when I find that comfort? My insides are in complete disarray
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Dec 3, 2024
Dec 3, 2024 at 2:22 AM UTC
Destination Crazy
I don't know how to start this But I swear it's ******* with my mind Cause the way you never miss And the way it makes me cry Why's she always first? And the way you always seem to make it worse Why can't I just ignore it? For her I'd just die for it It makes me sick It makes me cry It makes me wish I could denie Denie the fact that she's important To repair your broken comportment I hate your jokes I hate my life It's tiring me It makes me die And yet I always seem to come back trying Trying to keep myself from falling Into that deep cage again Where I never seem to be the same And I love her I really do But your indecisive way of being "you" Makes my mind go back again To the place I've always fell And I tired to ignore it Annoyed I avoided Avoided my feelings Desperate to cover the grave Where I hid my toxic trait.
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Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM UTC
Can't I just ignore it
You ask me to get dinner So casually I almost didn't hear it And the chemistry is there And you're waiting for my yes But all I do is stare In my head he tells me to go But my heart is screaming no You asked me to get dinner So casually I chose not to hear it And the chemistry is there And yeah we could be a match But I wouldn't dare In my head he tells me to go But his heart is all I want to know
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Sep 6, 2024
Sep 6, 2024 at 3:40 AM UTC
Not Hungry
On the verge of yes, More likely I'll say no Constantly increasing the distance, Never quite letting go Always wearing a tight lipped smile, Even when I'm feeling blue No sense in letting them know, There's nothing anyone can do
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Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024 at 7:17 PM UTC
Tightrope
Closing off all I can't decide Gotta lock myself inside
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Feb 17, 2024
Feb 17, 2024 at 4:58 AM UTC
Closing Off
Indecision dances in the mind's embrace, A tangled web of choices to chase. Between the paths, uncertain we sway, Seeking clarity to light our way.
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Aug 12, 2023
Aug 12, 2023 at 11:18 AM UTC
Untitled
It’s not fun reinsuring my position with you, looking from my view, when those feelings became one sided. It’s not fun accepting those false facts about how you’ve done a full 360 change, not realizing you’ve fallen back into the same space. It’s not fun watching you go back and forth with your state of mind when you simply can’t decide on what you want.
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Sep 7, 2022
Sep 7, 2022 at 12:20 AM UTC
Ms. Indecisive
Veins blue and icy In a hot body, melting Then frozen again
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Jan 22, 2021
Jan 22, 2021 at 10:55 AM UTC
Hot & Cold
i have struggled to make decisions all my life so they’ve always been made for me what i wear what haircut i have what i eat indecisiveness has always been my worst enemy but i chose you and that’s the only choice that i am sure of the decision was mine nobody made it for me i own it.
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Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020 at 12:01 AM UTC
indecisive
one day anxiety will devour me whole and spit me back, shivering and still unsure
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Sep 26, 2020
Sep 26, 2020 at 6:29 PM UTC
maneater
I have come to realize that the hardest thing to do is not picking out an option from two that are very similar in nature, but rather putting myself first.
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Jun 21, 2020
Jun 21, 2020 at 7:41 AM UTC
"...choose me, love me..."
I circle the store at least three times, every time I go. I can never make up my mind. Usually Trader Joe will ask me if I'm OK, Or if he can help me find anything. Usually I'll lie and say I'm fine, Squinting intently at the array of fresh greens But today I asked him.. How can I decide which fruit is the sweetest? Does it matter where it came from? Does it matter if an onion is red, or yellow, or "sweet" If they all will make me cry? What's the difference between a fig and a date? How come I can never find either of them? If swiss chard is so good for you, Why does it taste so bad going down? Why do beans make you farty? How is that a "magic fruit?" Why is everyone blind to the lie That carrots make your eyesight better? Is it toe-may-toe or toe-mat-toe? Poe-tay-toe or poe-tat-toe? Does it matter? Does any of this matter? He replied, "Ma'am, my name isn't Joe. I don't know. I just work here.. and they definitely don't pay me enough for this." So I left with an empty bag, and a heavy mind.
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Jun 8, 2020
Jun 8, 2020 at 7:39 PM UTC
Grocery Shopping
I kept a quarter in a drawer next to my bed for when I made decisions that hurt my head where each choice came at great cost to my sanity so I flipped a quarter to cheapen the price to twenty-five cents and I said it's just common sense keeping innocence but it's ignorance and guiltlessness that I wanted for me. When a quarter felt too heavy I moved on to a dime because it was lighter than its cost and fit my indecisive crime but I find I tossed it too high and couldn't always catch it so it clattered to the floor and rolled beneath my dresser and maybe if I left it there, my decision-making stressor would disappear like the dime then I could quit Yet decisions kept on coming and so a nickel would have to do five-cent choices should be worth less than dimes too and yet again, I couldn't bear the weight of my choice. So instead I flipped two pennies, to get my two cents in. One landed heads, the other tails, and I still have a decision. I can't keep flipping coins to replace my voice. My treasure trove of choices worth less than the ones before because they're all plastic, made so I don't have to endure the weight of cost so I selfishly kept on flipping all these coins and kept on wishing they would never land. Fifty-fifty, leave my choice to chance, take it out of my hand. If my coins never land, then my decisions cost me nothing.
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Jun 10, 2020
Jun 10, 2020 at 10:02 AM UTC
Coin-Flipper
the hardest fight to win is the one that is forever raging an inch never taking no man's land is your residence you can only proceed with hesitance as this battle your fighting is you against you and its filled with dissonance turbulent thoughts eddy flows and countercurrent desires your mind is afloat in a sea of indecision waiting for a vision of clarity Where is my north star? My guiding light to help me on my mission to make this decision I keep wrestling with my ambition and my desire for submission to my guilty side unobliging not hiding never shying from the chance to take all my time and burn it with relaxation a win for the soul but a loss for the mind why sleep now when I have the rest of time? but never slowing will the dim the glowing of the creative ember lighting the way and you never want to see that day when it fades away so take your time, let your stress wash away let the good times play maybe even pray? Life is there tomorrow you are here today
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May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020 at 1:48 PM UTC
Dissonance
May God show me the way for I fled to the edge where I lost my way, where I am surrounded with logs. come and rescue me among the mist of my heart where they call I have to listen. does it really talk? Does it talk with it palpation, maybe the bathing of blood? come and rescue me from the secrets of my heart as I burn from the high volts of my heart. come and rescue me where I needed you I discarded you I chose my ways away from you. your etiquette I left alone with biting cold where grass leeches every page of your scripture. I am tamed a sinner as I failed to tame my tongue as your etiquette stated . come and rescue me for my heart ekes me out.
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May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020 at 10:44 AM UTC
Secrets of the Heart
Torn between choices Move forward or go back home Which one up to you
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Apr 16, 2020
Apr 16, 2020 at 12:31 AM UTC
Two Choices (Haiku)
there’s a lot of things drifting in my mind, and the right words to justify them I can’t seem to find. there's a lot of questions with answers I have yet to seek, I see choices around but troubled to pick. then there's this heart and mind which quarrels every time, now lost in thoughts I'm torn in which to side.
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Apr 9, 2020
Apr 9, 2020 at 11:27 AM UTC
indecisive
you are so sweet yet so bad for me you taste so secretive so deliciously mine but you're only a recipe for a broken heart no matter how many times i put you on my tongue you drench it in your savoury promises that you'll never keep leaving me empty with desire and somehow, i can never say 'no'
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Jan 27, 2020
Jan 27, 2020 at 11:47 PM UTC
empty calories