#underwhelming - Hello Poetry

Everything costs money and you never have the time Want to be an artist, but your poems can't seem to rhyme Much disputed master of the obscure Much opposed disrupter of the order Guess the experiment went wrong Just because your style is different, won't mean it's gold Such a working actor Such an active wreck "So I think I missed my chance" you foam Cause you're ageing and your Oscar ain't yet home Truth be told and lies be laid Youth eternal, at long once and once again Too late you find your life a bore Turning it all back is irresponsible and wrong Don't beat yourself, cause their ways don't match with yours You just haven't found that thing to make you less alone Isolated, mocked and wrongly painted Bereft, crestfallen, hardly tainted

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Jul 21, 2019

Jul 21, 2019 at 7:28 PM UTC

Proctor_Ehrling

So you wanted to be an artist?

Everything costs money and you never have the time Want to be an artist, but your poems can't seem to rhyme Much disputed master of the obscure Much opposed disrupter of the order Guess the experiment went wrong Just because your style is different, won't mean it's gold Such a working actor Such an active wreck "So I think I missed my chance" you foam Cause you're ageing and your Oscar ain't yet home Truth be told and lies be laid Youth eternal, at long once and once again Too late you find your life a bore Turning it all back is irresponsible and wrong Don't beat yourself, cause their ways don't match with yours You just haven't found that thing to make you less alone Isolated, mocked and wrongly painted Bereft, crestfallen, hardly tainted

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i am overzealous and underwhelming. i say somethings and i regret them. i say nothings and i wish i hadn't. i am weighted and unbalanced. i place value where i think it belongs. i lean heavy into things for too long. i am uncertain and so sure. i run out of thoughts before my heart runs out of feelings. my thoughts run over and overwhelm my heart. i am liminal and concrete. im incomplete but hoping i could be.

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Aug 31, 2019

Aug 31, 2019 at 11:55 PM UTC

seraphim444

i am underwhelming

i am overzealous and underwhelming. i say somethings and i regret them. i say nothings and i wish i hadn't. i am weighted and unbalanced. i place value where i think it belongs. i lean heavy into things for too long. i am uncertain and so sure. i run out of thoughts before my heart runs out of feelings. my thoughts run over and overwhelm my heart. i am liminal and concrete. im incomplete but hoping i could be.

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salt — something that used to be so essential, is now commonplace. love — breath in motion, formed a love potion, now attributed to “posts”, t-shirts — underwhelming things caught in crevices.

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Nov 3, 2025

Nov 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM UTC

bekahalle

the price of salt

salt — something that used to be so essential, is now commonplace. love — breath in motion, formed a love potion, now attributed to “posts”, t-shirts — underwhelming things caught in crevices.

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