#upsanddowns
Am I to forever run in the endless staircase
That so many of us call life?
The one with no railings
And wraps around an invisible pole,
Making each movement so stressful.
Each step colors from blinding white
To dull blues, yellows, reds, pinks,
And the neon versions of them.
Some even sing songs of optimism
While others bellow heavy tunes of gray.
Am I destined to always have to look down
When I’m tired of going up and think,
“I’m exhausted so what if i just.. fall. Yet,
I simply cannot after such dedication,”?
The stairs behind me fade away,
I’d be so easy to lean back and forget.
Am I fated to evermore stare up
In search of an end that doesn’t exist
At the time?
To look for the top everyone
Tries and tries to reach,
But no one is ever successful in.
Because the top doesn’t exist
And stair steps only appear once
A foot is placed down.
So for the time being,
I’ll take a step and then another one
As I stare off into
What I can only imagine is
The light of my staircase.
May 16
May 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM UTC
take it day by day
there will be ups and downs
but soon enough there'll be more ups than downs
life gets better day by day
one day might be low and sad
you might contemplate death
then the next day it will be a joy to live
so excited to do things and see people
take it day by day
things will change
it will get better
you just have to make through each day
Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM UTC
Things are going swimmingly
They seem to gather steam
From one small tweak, another grows
Life's rolling towards the dream
Good intentions, some results
The buds begin to peek
As faster and then faster
Progress snowballs by the week.
Positivity is fine
I think I can, and try
The jaded shell is cracking
Though things are hard... I can get by.
But wait.
A stab.
A needle sharp
Digs deep inside
To pierce my heart.
And suddenly, all seems
To freeze.
The buds turn ice
'Neath brittle leaves.
The air is frosty
Hard to breathe.
A sour taste
I want to leave.
Bitter, twisted
Pain-filled heart
Once now betrayed
It wants no part.
And everything
Turns on its head
Where once was hope
Now's black instead
Rejection
I shan't
Humor thee.
I'll stab you back
To think I'm free.
It hurts, it hurts
Oh, how it aches
Best turn to ice
That, I can take.
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022 at 1:51 AM UTC
I was riding a roller coaster;
Ups and downs;
Swirling around;
As I was getting higher;
It was getting colder;
As I was getting lower;
I thought everything was over....
Jan 15, 2021
Jan 15, 2021 at 8:36 AM UTC
As beautiful as the starts went
Our life suddenly hit us with a dent
All of a sudden our life had changed
Only to realise that all of your life wasn’t always arranged
You start to think about all the ups and downs
And you keep skipping all the days of frowns
Then u come to a conclusion that we have yet to start our day
Again get hit by a stone which lead you to astray
Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020 at 4:13 AM UTC
Oh God, I'm happy in this morning,
Being free of problem solving,
Living loving the road I'm hitting,
The misery I'm passing through.
Oh, how I would be free to suffer
Other mornings and another,
Filled with oh-such charming pattern,
Being happy after all.
Oh happy! Seeing all gifts that matter,
A marrow and a loving mother,
Ever radiating on the darker-darker
Sight that I'm still having though.
Oh, the obscure morrow and yester -
All those possible disaster
Are enlightened and farther- farther
Now.
Oh God, I'm happy in the now-happening;
I wish this moment pending padding,
I would leave all those doubtful setting'
And resting for ever in a now.
Oct 5, 2019
Oct 5, 2019 at 1:43 AM UTC
i'm overwhelmed. overworked. under appreciated.
the work of people like her goes unnoticed. she feels as if everyone's under the spell of a lotus. all she wishes is that everyone could focus.
focus on the ups and the downs. the ins and the outs.
the work of people like her goes unnoticed.
Sep 6, 2019
Sep 6, 2019 at 11:35 PM UTC
Love Clouds by: Frederica Ehimen
The darkness is cool and wet
The sunlight is just beyond the horizon
White oceans beyond I see
There is this love between you and me
We could not exist if we
Were not... Could not continue to be
The You and Me we are destined
To be, so we wait in the stillness
Of the Sun waiting for the still light to creep back in
The darkness fades, and we will rise to find
Our love survived
Feb 28, 2018
Feb 28, 2018 at 2:06 PM UTC
Highs as prominent as the sky,
Creating lows to become pits of despair.
No return for rapture in this hollow evening.
Where thoughts are not allowed to be felt,
Yet my heart still aches for you.
Oct 10, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 at 9:53 PM UTC
**One day-the talk of the Sailors, the next a wreck
a beauty of the universe and the next a Shrek
The king of the jungle today, a carcass tomorrow
from pinnacle of joy to an iceberg of sorrow**
*One moment you're a trodden road, the next forgotten
fresh and busking marine and then a fossil, you're rotten
this minute, a blossom of the garden and then a wilt
a rock of now that will be glaciated to mere silt*
**Even an Eagle soaring high in the sky gets to the ground
at some point, the found get lost and the lost get found
drums that rumble will someday go the limpid in a ***
you lack today but someday will find all you sought**
Jan 19, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 at 1:53 AM UTC
We all were strangers before
but time brought us together
And we came to know each other more.
I was always afraid of fall
but whenever I looked around
I smiled, cause I knew you all would be my wall.
Waiting for people at metro station was irritating
but I enjoyed every moment with you all
From sitting on the floor to eating.
We had fights and stupid conversations
but one thing I am glad about
We peacefully handled all the situations.
What would I miss? That headphone and those calls?
i guess not?
I would rather miss those talks and the trolls.
Home doesn’t feel like home
just few moments away
And all the memories will be gone
Just a promise to keep the faith forever
to be with each other till the end
No matters whenever, wherever.
Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 11:17 PM UTC
*Its starts with such a beautiful note
That enchants you in, listing to more
The chords flow with such passion
Such hope for the future
Till you reach the diminished
That throws the whole song down to hell
From light and hope
To dark and sin
This song of life has changed in ways
I never saw coming
The tune grows darker
The volume become louder
The chords harsher
But then it stops
And one single note changes it back to the light
The hardness of the chords soften
The volume begins to calm
And the tune once more flows through my soul
This is the song of life
And then it finishes
Leaving you with the experience of music...
The experience of life...*
Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 2:01 AM UTC
Hands up
Body rigid with anticipation
My gut pulls down
Stronger and stronger as I go up
I can see the top
So close but so far
I decided to take a risk
And try my luck at this ride
I inch over the peak
And then I
Fall
Screaming with adrenaline
Impossible not to smile
This was the thrill I sought
My gamble payed off
But then the tracks flatten out
And overcome with disappointment
I realize
It's all already over
All that can happen
When I spend 3 minutes
Talking to you
"My friends can come too"
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 1:01 AM UTC
life is like a sinusoidal graph
curving up and curving down
over and over again and never stopping
sometimes we feel higher than the sun
and everything is going great
then a few days or weeks or months later it all comes crashing down again
right now im on the downward curve preparing for what is to come
but i know that things will be okay again
but all this up and down makes my stomach do flips
i know it's cliché but life really is like a roller coaster you can't get off
curving up and curving down again
and never stopping
Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014 at 5:53 PM UTC
Upon typing
the last verse
she jumped
from the chair
forgetting to close
the windows
and ran through
the wooden halls
of the country house
outside into the
joyous wildflowers
swaying like pendulums;
The afternoon breeze cool
and **** like green apples.
Joy was skipping
until the summer air
froze her heated throat.
Clouds brimmed purple
dewing her nose,
head buried when
droplets fell,
summer's ecstasy
melting into lukewarm pools
on a trail leading to
fallen firs.
Worried the curtains
at home were soaked,
pummeled
by clear pellets,
she was lost.
No friend to tease,
pine needles
from tangled hair.
Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 12:06 AM UTC