"demotivated" poems
I remember...
I was sad because I could only afford four textbooks out of five
Until the best student dropped out of school due to lack of tuition
I was upset because I wasn't served dessert
Until I saw a starving man
I complained my car was manual transmission
Until I saw a guy wishing for a used bicycle
I always wished for a bigger bed
Until I saw a man sleeping on the street
I was demotivated because my job wasn't paying well
Until I saw unemployment rate in other countries
I was ****** with myself when I dislocated my ankle
Until I saw someone without legs
It's definitely good to admire better things but
Appreciate what you have
Because somebody wants just that!
Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 12:15 PM UTC
I want to ask society why it
broke so many of its people
Why are so many productive
people feel driven to suicide
Who took their self worth and
nailed it to the mast of net worth
Why are the wealthy inflated
with arrogance and the poor
burdened by shame
Who took self esteem and
married it to our income
How did a tool of measurement
directly become value
Why is it fashionable to be rich
and look down on the poor
Why are the words of a rich man
listened to, so much more
Why do people not recognize their
small creations at the ground level
Why do we rob the poor of respect
too give too the over elevated rich
Why are the poor demotivated by shame
while pride drives on in a ruthless
appetite possessed by the rich
Who disconnected self worth from
the flower of produce and replaced
it with money
Who thought it a good idea to abandon
people on their tiny rafts and throw them
into rough waters of fear and greed
Who said fear and greed make
a good flower bed
Why have people not been guided into
deeper waters where currents flow and
a richness in the heart can be explored
Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 9:26 AM UTC
whats more important
than having the person you love in front of you
or being updated on social media?
Demotivated
Lack of attention
Waste of time
Relationship
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 4:38 AM UTC
Deep within all of us lies an impeccable source of strength...a strength of which we are unaware and sometimes it takes an adverse and hopeless circumstance to draw it out....and once we discover it...we will realize that no goal is too big and no path is impossible...if we have the stomach for a fight and the will to learn and improve then virtually nothing is unachievable....Roger Federer winning his 18th slam at the age of 35 and Rafael Nadal winning his tenth French Open at age 31 is an inspiration to me...the fact that these legends did not give up and were ready to keep working and fight it out..has taught me one valuable lesson...even when you're going through a prolonged phase of failures never ever feel demotivated...keep your hopes up and believe in yourself...you will taste success again.
Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 at 11:16 AM UTC
Gone those days
When we waited for the perfect day
To propose
And express our feelings directed by our heart
Long plannings were made
To make the moment perfectly perfect
But we too feared and hoped
We don't hear a NO.
If it was a YES,
A smile from the other said was enough to let us know.
But if it was a NO,
Friends said, they had smelled that long time ago.
Some said you wasted so much money to buy those roses dear,
If I had known your intentions earlier
I wouldn't have let you do so.
Poor heart only felt the sorrows
It didn't bother about the financial loss
The almost empty pocket had got.
It only wished to fall in love and nothing else.
It only whispered softly and said
Let's fall in love
For all beautiful future days
Which will be happy and prosperous
If we are together forever from this day.
But no one was there to listen to our heart.
Only silent breeze and setting sun witnessed the drowning heart
Into the deep sea of sorrows and tears.
Those days love really mattered.
Those days sorrows were really heavy enough to shatter us.
But we never got demotivated Because
Loving friends were always there
To cheer us up and stand beside us.
But
These days everything seems so fake,
Even the words of love comes with asterisk conditions apply
That the beautiful words-
"Let's fall in love..... "
Seems less precious these days.
Jul 2, 2018
Jul 2, 2018 at 8:53 AM UTC
*Take me as I am.
Flawed, upset, strung-out and young.
Take me now while I have this dream.
This reality today is all about fun.
Take me as I am.
Lazy, tired, demotivated, and plain.
Take me now while the sun is dark.
I sit here realizing the game.
Take me as I am.
Hungry, ambitious, eager , and true.
Take me, please take me fast.
Take me back, because I am You.*
Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 2:19 PM UTC
why is life so often determined by
sticking to something
one is so demotivated by?
Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 11:18 AM UTC
I sit here
With intent to write
To finish projects due in hours
But, I stumbled,
Falling victim to media
And you were there,
A face I hadn’t seen in years
Staring at me through a cracked screen
A face that should be nothing less than framed,
Yet is shattered.
Unsure of why I left,
I can only imagine your thoughts,
Confusion may lie within you,
As it does me.
Was I making a point?
I forget.
Perhaps I should try to remember,
Or maybe I should leave it where it lay,
Blocked from any means of remembrance,
Just as I left you.
Was it mutual?
Probably.
For why else would you refuse contact
Other than to rid yourself of someone
Leaking toxicity, staining
Your Calvin Klein briefs
And Banana Republic sweaters
With their cheap ideas and faulty concepts.
I believed I wanted to be as good as you
And with you
And I still do,
Sometimes.
But, generally,
I think I’m better
Now.
Maybe.
Is this love?
I’m unsure.
I think I’m in love
Without you,
But also with you.
I have a second half,
Or maybe two,
Is this why I’ve felt dead?
Functioning at only a third
Of what I should be?
Demotivated and motionless,
Stationary,
Grounded
Due to hopelessness of a future
With you,
Without him?
There is no prosperity or happiness
In a life without either one
Of you
But maybe especially this one.
You’re 4000 miles away,
And you’re remarkable.
Congratulations.
Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 10:54 PM UTC
i am like a lighter,
i glow, bright
i glow with ideas and creativity but
with one false motion or
one false word, im demotivated and depressed.
with one motion.
Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM UTC
I seek sibling-hood,
I pursue love.
Ghouls are choking the air that sustains,
and taking my wants just before I grasp.
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 3:20 PM UTC
He is the bystander
watching as the words drop
to meander amongst the
audience
when the show ends
he becomes
deactivated
demotivated
putting away his thoughts of the day
and those wallowing’s of his following
on social media sites.
The hundreds of nights before and the
ones that will come
stun
his senses,
sidestepping the tut tutting,
the mutterings of the jealous
and the old press cuttings that
fall from a drawer to remind him
of a time when
he wasn’t as good as he
would become
he sees the sun rise over the Olivetti,
a ribbon trails across the floor.
An age is upon him
wearing the old bones
thin.
fin.
© 2017, John Smallshaw.
Apr 23, 2017
Apr 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM UTC
you left and i waited
my heart defibrillated
i took you back
my vision constricted
i forgot your lies
**** my demise
i just didnt want to be disintegrated
so i waited
for you to change and the past be negated
it felt like new
you felt like home
your words i mistranslated
you took my heart
and left it
obliterated
i took you back
loved you right
still all that love unrequited
but now i’m reincarnated
no longer the assassinated
you left me demotivated
but boy am I liberated
i loved you with all that i had
a love i never got back
you can have it
please keep it
i dont need it
i’ll just keep you blacklisted
Dec 4, 2017
Dec 4, 2017 at 10:22 AM UTC
When it seems,
demotivated due to the routines,
and tired of deciding in-betweens,
And all negativities work in teams,
against all your mights,
to push you back from all your heights,
Like the sunbeams,
after the couple of days,
of monsoon rains!
what come up are your dreams!
'cause of which you are here on your way,
'cause of which you will again stand up and stay!
'cause of which you will hold on again for a day, everyday!
Sep 24, 2018
Sep 24, 2018 at 11:53 AM UTC