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#pessimistic
"New year, new me" yet again, I pray to be. Then, why still a poor glimpse of an old me is all I see? Did I win my battles or did I flee? All pain, All pain is all I see! My mind like driven by negative energy. Why can't I be a bit happy?
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Jan 1
Jan 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTC
Dear Mirror 🪞
All line’s a gloomful mile Escaping the infernal asylum Undaring to ever peep it back My sweat’s alchemized despair Blackness of defunct stars Psychic smoke, tearsome ruins of fleshful rubble Neither soul nor lungs respire well Multitude of ghosts screeching “Hellest hell!!!” Forgotten town hosting torture for the psyche Ashified rain blinding the melancholic orbs Remote violence in its darkness Arctic bones shrieking n' shattering Only Lord to carry woeful demi-cadavers Villagers livin’ like corpses But scarecrows dance their life Spookin’ all the starved crows Now only nowhere for ‘em to chow
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Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM UTC
Metaphysical Mayhem
I saw some, the solitary creatures with fervent, misguided entitlement they carry, an astonishing amount of delusions yet strangely quite self-aware, the jaded pessimists who have the ability to feel optimistic even after a lifetime of disappointment, the burnt-out perfectionists, sometimes bludgeoned into settling for mediocrity, then feeling a euphoric rush from completing a single deadline. I saw me.
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Nov 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM UTC
I saw me
What is hope? How is it defined? What is despair? How is it defined? Why do we feel these things? How is it processed? Hope makes you naive, Gullible, optimistic, Despair makes you desperate, Sacrificing, pessimistic, These emotions are useless, In this large cruel world In this thing we call life What is life? Truly why do we live? Is it some need? How naive, how desperate, How fortunate could you truly be? All you need is to survive, “What do I need?”
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Nov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM UTC
Hope and Despair
Woke up with the moon You could say Everything was merry Full of life and energy Pessimist me was locked Optimism all the way through Should have known its short lived Now it's late And just as its dark So are my emotions All the expectations I had For me and others Just doesn't cut it anymore In the end its me Pessimist me So goodnight I say For today is done
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Mar 2, 2025
Mar 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM UTC
Me,moon,mr optimist
oh my, a white flower. pale as snow and oh so pure that even the devils cower is it a cure? distaste in my mouth how can something be so innocent when my whole life is going south not a sliver of thing decent I didn't flinch as I crush the flower with my foot maybe I'm a Grinch pessimistic to the root I felt its petals grinding turning into powder consumed by a rage so blinding that it makes me wonder what have I become ...?
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Dec 1, 2024
Dec 1, 2024 at 3:22 AM UTC
white flower
What fresh invention, Breaking with convention; To press down with anger, And drive firm with depression. Comfort in the arms, of a Thorny ex. Bathed in attention. A hopeless obsession- the silenced Tongue wags, In this quiet procession.
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Aug 2, 2023
Aug 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM UTC
Solvent
I do not know of halcyon days, for the daily outlets of my extremes are still too dominant in order to appease the thirst and flames.
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Aug 18, 2022
Aug 18, 2022 at 9:07 PM UTC
endless hatred
"Unfortunately, honey, the sunflowers still face the sun and the rivers run toward the oceans. Our neighbors do grow old, and the clouds still make rain. City lights pollute our sky's natural beauty while we pollute our hearts in the same darkness. So, you know, we stay pessimistic in a world that is quickly dying, and we don't recognize things until they've disappeared. We don't love enough for what little life we're given, and we leave a scar once we're gone. So, we must remember that the optimistic sun is made for the flowers, and the rivers and ocean are but the same water. Our neighbors see us grow too, and the same clouds make rain for those sunflowers just as we are made for each other. To see each other and touch their hearts, too. The hearts that fill up the dark. The city will light our way home, and the sky has stars in the dark. It can go two ways, you see. Do not forget the other side, what we cannot see, what we forget. We are victims of this, but the world is your oyster. And your mind it is what you make it."
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Jun 15, 2021
Jun 15, 2021 at 2:43 AM UTC
An Optimist's Pessimism
We broke the world with our haste We broke the world with our greed We broke the world with our horrid taste We broke the world with our desire to bleed We broke the world with our differences We broke the world with our hate We broke the world with our terrible preferences We broke the world with our distaste for being late We broke the world with our monuments We broke the world with our thoughts We broke the world with our pointless arguments We broke the world with our wooden cross  We killed the world that once worked for the people We killed the world that celebrated the brightest of bright We killed the world in which we once were equal We killed the world with all our monstrous might
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May 8, 2021
May 8, 2021 at 12:55 PM UTC
We broke the world
every day is a second chance as the first is already lost, every love is a second dance as the first still plays in your thoughts, every life: a second glance at a past at present not worth its cost.
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Apr 26, 2021
Apr 26, 2021 at 1:32 PM UTC
Seconds
I've always been in between life. It's always somewhere over being uncertain and certain, optimistic and pessimistic, and introverted or extroverted. Despite all that, there's one thing I'm sure of. It is holding on to dear life, going along through it. I am nothing more than human, but I am my own future.
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Jun 2, 2020
Jun 2, 2020 at 10:37 AM UTC
between
I’ve been searching for my life’s purpose for a couple of years and let me tell you this. The only thing that I’ve discovered is that: “There are no lights, music and fireworks for us, buddy, in the land of self-development” No lofty aspirations to be realized. Nor shiny kick *** careers to be given attention to. NO SUCH LUCK. The only thing that exists is kind of pessimistic albeit genuine. As far as I know, it is your only chance of doing anything. “Only the principle of minimum effort rules the underworld that’s lodged deep within our heads” (The voice said) Again the voice spoke. (This time with a much more demanding tone) “Do the least you can do and do it well” “For there is no place for underachievers like you here in OUR domain”
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Apr 15, 2020
Apr 15, 2020 at 11:09 AM UTC
On having a life purpose
I wish to be a man of hope again but this life is just too cruel 11:16 AM 22/12/19
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Dec 21, 2019
Dec 21, 2019 at 7:17 PM UTC
Haiku
We are growing into a world of empty promises, a world of dishonesty, a world of trust issues, a world of backstabbers, & a world of one-sided efforts. We're losing our motivation of pursuing relationships & friendships. We're sabotaging the progress we're making to better our lives. I don't know if this is my pessimistic thinking or its reality. Whatever it is, it's sad.
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Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019 at 9:32 AM UTC
Denial within us.
Let them leave- it doesn't matter. If life is temporary, how can they be permanent? Nothing really lasts so strap yourself in and enjoy the ride.
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Oct 18, 2019
Oct 18, 2019 at 5:12 AM UTC
Temporary
Tell me please, why do you like death? What is it about her? Is she better than me? Do you have a cemetery shortage? Candles. This town is endless.
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Jun 8, 2019
Jun 8, 2019 at 3:25 AM UTC
Death Effect
And as I bathed in milk, it became curdled. My heart eventually turning everything sour. It is a magic trick only I know.
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Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019 at 10:02 PM UTC
The Witches Who Brew Pessimism
Does everyone come to realize that life is just a terminal illness?
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Jun 2, 2019
Jun 2, 2019 at 9:04 PM UTC
Random Thought #1
That feeling you get when you try giving up being a pessimist.
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Apr 2, 2019
Apr 2, 2019 at 1:23 PM UTC
Disappointment
"You need a good education to live a full and happy life." "You'll never make it without a degree." "Be reasonable." "Have a plan B." "Be realistic." What's realistic to me is different than what's realistic to you. I don't want a plan B, my heart is set on one thing. If being reasonable means working a dead end job, consider me the contrary. No degree means no me? What about Brian Adams, Adele, David Bowe, Thomas Edison and even nine US presidents with no degree and amazing lives. Some people I know dropped out of high school, barely know how to sign their name and living their lives to the fullest. So do not tell me what to do or who I am or who I have to be. I will be me, even if that means I am a starving artist at fifty- three. Even if that means I am couch surfing half my life while finding my dream job. Even if that means I am unrealistically hopeful my whole life. At least I am not a pessimistic, discouraging, sad being. Like you want me to be.
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Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 6:41 PM UTC
Get Real
I finally found the answers To the questions I thought were unknown I shall forever remain a lone wolf This boat of mine will never reach shore
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Mar 20, 2019
Mar 20, 2019 at 2:21 PM UTC
This Boat.