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"underachieving" poems
I get the crust and the gristle of a thistle once a missile shooting out into the sky and I cry, wonder why. Never sure what I feel for the meal of a deal and then words more like air slip the breeze in my hair, butterflies in the skies killing what kept my alive. Oh too bad, well how sad, if the songs last lines din't matter it'd harm, it'd make the soul so very mad. Here I fall, there I stand like a robot dancing to the tunes. It's demand. Hear I laugh, hear I cry. I hear the screams and feel the burn, so why? Why unsure, of what's telling me my life is so impure. Threatened heart, from the strings that wrap it, tearing it apart. Feel the clench of a bundle of what you yourself have drench and so benched. And you threw to me the horror show, I never so have thought would reckon me to be. I, to be, it's master and it's longing family, here I cry. Hear "I" cry. For I exist in heart, but never, not in mind. There I stand once again as a memory of all that I pretend. If I tried, to be real, the pieces fall apart inside. So I hide, then I quiver and I shake as 'me' is inside. I can touch to the shelter covered in the unbelieving, underachieving to be who I know I am to be. Or at least what you see. I crush the old me and start anew, though I grew. I, immortal to myself have stomped the true. And I become something greater than simple little shrew. Do not lie! For I see with one eye, the look through me. What you see is a host, not the ghost, that lives on. "Awh, look at me. I'm so strong!" Laugh along. Child there. Where? Oops, forgot to care. Now I stare, towards the end that's never ending like this script. Never ending. Twist and bending. Don't kid me, I'm no kid. I'm the body of a youth, but I am dead. I've destroyed myself, if others didn't do a perfect job. Hold up stop! I'm letting go, a bubble that will pop. It will burst, destroying me, if it doesn't **** me first. Here I stand. Hear I cry. There I go. I have died.
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May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 1:09 PM UTC
Vents
I get the crust and the gristle of a thistle once a missile shooting out into the sky and I cry, wonder why. Never sure what I feel for the meal of a deal and then words more like air slip the breeze in my hair, butterflies in the skies killing what kept my alive. Oh too bad, well how sad, if the songs last lines din't matter it'd harm, it'd make the soul so very mad. Here I fall, there I stand like a robot dancing to the tunes. It's demand. Hear I laugh, hear I cry. I hear the screams and feel the burn, so why? Why unsure, of what's telling me my life is so impure. Threatened heart, from the strings that wrap it, tearing it apart. Feel the clench of a bundle of what you yourself have drench and so benched. And you threw to me the horror show, I never so have thought would reckon me to be. I, to be, it's master and it's longing family, here I cry. Hear "I" cry. For I exist in heart, but never, not in mind. There I stand once again as a memory of all that I pretend. If I tried, to be real, the pieces fall apart inside. So I hide, then I quiver and I shake as 'me' is inside. I can touch to the shelter covered in the unbelieving, underachieving to be who I know I am to be. Or at least what you see. I crush the old me and start anew, though I grew. I, immortal to myself have stomped the true. And I become something greater than simple little shrew. Do not lie! For I see with one eye, the look through me. What you see is a host, not the ghost, that lives on. "Awh, look at me. I'm so strong!" Laugh along. Child there. Where? Oops, forgot to care. Now I stare, towards the end that's never ending like this script. Never ending. Twist and bending. Don't kid me, I'm no kid. I'm the body of a youth, but I am dead. I've destroyed myself, if others didn't do a perfect job. Hold up stop! I'm letting go, a bubble that will pop. It will burst, destroying me, if it doesn't **** me first. Here I stand. Hear I cry. There I go. I have died.
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I've stopped caring if people call me Mr. I'm resigned sometimes to fade away like a moldy apple rotting quietly in the bin it was only a taste of me that ever counted but I'm not done yet (sigh) babies...this is the rowdy bus ride on the long windy island road shouting holy **** as the driver power swerves around the sunday driving couple in a flash, white knuckled eye to eye with the semi driver not even surprised that we are colliding no-one else seems to notice this ride ends too, a red house on a hillside over looking the pacific monkey toucan sloth a private pool infinity style, ends at the edge and tumbles into what nothing to signify no goals met I'm just alive, perhaps underachieving, this number on my check is a third of last years take maybe I'm not charging enough maybe I'm working too hard or not eating I've gained no weight since college and I barely seem to care I learn night moves, sometimes I can sing fearless full throated belts a sign in some ohio river town in front of some church that some people still go to and maybe get charged at the door says pray ceaselessly they say yoga is a way of being a person goes to the gym for an hour but what about the other 23 I keep my back straight and my breath full and count a days labor for ******* in my ***** and keeping my triangles engaged just like Bomchew and Paul taught me an old lady smiles at me in a white stair case, calls me cowboy she said she saw me standing in court a judge threatening to throw me in jail and said to herself now theres a man
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 4:03 PM UTC
i'll tell you about the future once i get there
I've stopped caring if people call me Mr. I'm resigned sometimes to fade away like a moldy apple rotting quietly in the bin it was only a taste of me that ever counted but I'm not done yet (sigh) babies...this is the rowdy bus ride on the long windy island road shouting holy **** as the driver power swerves around the sunday driving couple in a flash, white knuckled eye to eye with the semi driver not even surprised that we are colliding no-one else seems to notice this ride ends too, a red house on a hillside over looking the pacific monkey toucan sloth a private pool infinity style, ends at the edge and tumbles into what nothing to signify no goals met I'm just alive, perhaps underachieving, this number on my check is a third of last years take maybe I'm not charging enough maybe I'm working too hard or not eating I've gained no weight since college and I barely seem to care I learn night moves, sometimes I can sing fearless full throated belts a sign in some ohio river town in front of some church that some people still go to and maybe get charged at the door says pray ceaselessly they say yoga is a way of being a person goes to the gym for an hour but what about the other 23 I keep my back straight and my breath full and count a days labor for ******* in my ***** and keeping my triangles engaged just like Bomchew and Paul taught me an old lady smiles at me in a white stair case, calls me cowboy she said she saw me standing in court a judge threatening to throw me in jail and said to herself now theres a man
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All Understanding uncovers ugliness, usury. Unifying utopians uncorruptable, unmoveable. Dashing Prophets promoted promiscuous personalities. Promethus’s powers persisted purposelessness. Do Postmodern proletariats protest phantoms? Puckering proudly, pondering paraphrases? If Egyptians engineered excessive egoists, Englishmen evolved ethical endgames. Tradition Rules reformed rednecks, remobilizing, romanticizing, recursions rose remarkably. If Caesar costumed cabals crafted carefully, Christianity calibrated circumferential conflicts. Vigilantism Unveils unlucky usurper, undoes underachieving, unemotional, unconsciousness unlearning unhumanness.    Every Tadpole’s talents triumphs titan’s tricks tip toeing towards truth.
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Sep 15, 2017
Sep 15, 2017 at 2:58 AM UTC
What has the gift of knowledge given unto us?
and The pickles on the shelves in the condiment aisle are readying themselves for the winter The half-sours stand at attention The garlics stand at parade rest Dill chips are stacked so their eyes cannot see out the jar Mrs. Smith's bread & butter pickles will not be on sale again until late Spring (so tasty are these) What a long cold winter awaits those underachieving cucumbers
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Feb 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016 at 2:44 PM UTC
Late Fall
Addicted to the green leaves, you're a caterpillar crawling in the dirt Conflicted and sick as he heaves, after looking up a butterflies"s skirt If he could only see, potentially, what he could be, if he"d simply just look up I continue my plea, eternally,  to help set him free, have a drink from my cup I know you waited a whole extra week to finally come out of our mother But the Responsibility rests on me, I refuse to give up on my only brother There"s no place like home Unless its abusive and broken There"s no chance to roam Unless actions are outspoken I'm afraid of success, because I'll finally run out of all the excuses Many sins to confess, none worse than underachieving all our uses If you could only fear less If you could only focus more Take a hit just to relieve stress Wake up in a city called ***** You"re still looking down crawling on the ground With so so many women lost waiting to be found You should be out up here with me flying around Butterflies attract without even speaking a sound We"re born with no parachutes and I'm a frequent flyer So please stop wallowing down in the muck and the mire Come flourish with me and lets set the ******* world on fire You're my only thicker than water, join me before we expire
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 1:53 AM UTC
Fear...less
glass half empty or half full? why do we even ask at all? all this thinking takes its toll on our society of analysis anti-action and paralysis it really is a dangerous thing overphilosophizing i mean we've fallen victim to the allure of thinking that we can cure anyone anything and or any problem with enough thinking tinkering and or solving but truly there's really got to be more to cure the modern malady of paradoxes and dichotomies and meta-epistemologies we've come too far for us to merely be just because i think we think if i can really only see what's standing right in front of me once it's gone to the periphery then i'm positive that we'll all have been over inacting and underachieving for far far too long we think too much and do too little it's not like it's a test or a riddle we write creeds and manifestos but there's no credence manifested if we don't give precedence not to kings queens or presidents but to becoming a society- a people who won't go quietly whose thoughts and bright ideas suddenly begin to coalesce into lives being lived to the absolute fullest we need something more we need a paradigm shift made from something much more sure than a philosopher's two cents but if we don't act now if we procrastinate and wait our dreams will just be dreams and tomorrow will be too late so then- if you don't mind instead of stopping just to analyze and think i think i'll take that half of a glass and maybe take a drink
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Oct 6, 2017
Oct 6, 2017 at 7:07 PM UTC
The Glass Half Had
I'm high on likes and retweets The hearts, and flames and repeats I'm an underachieving overachiever A social media facade I've designed A highlight reel, my life defined But behind the screens, a different tale A search for meaning, a life to hail The validation I seek, a fleeting thrill A moment's high, a lifetime's fulfill I yearn to break free from this digital stage And find my true self, in a real-life page
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Jan 15, 2025
Jan 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM UTC
Digital poetry
They say underachieving is an overrated skill But Who's better qualified for your time to **** So let me proceed to bleed just to prove I'm alive You'll never have to leave if you constantly arrive They say Confucious once said that he's the true root of all confusion And stars are really just God's making love, we call it nuclear fusion Metaphorically I smite thee with blasphemy as I come to a conclusion Then I left somehow forgetting to remember time is merely an illusion They also say most communication is nonverbal and it crept in my head I had so many questions to ask, but figured they were better left un-said And as I opened my mouth I saw a sign with the words "better off read" It was the manual to the future, "Stare at your phones until your dead"
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Apr 23, 2016
Apr 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM UTC
Signature Please
Being a teenager is dodging bullets of petty rumors and gossip speeding towards you like heat-seeking missiles in the middle of the hallway and Hiding from the shadows and trying to find the light simultaneously and Aiming to please everyone, especially your parents who don't pay attention to the important things like whether or not you're still sane unless you ask them please and Floating somewhere in the middle of over and underachieving so as to remain afloat and Constantly battling the stress that wages a war on your body and mind and Falling in and out of what can only be described as the adolescent definition of love and Wishing you could sign a peace treaty with wherever all these emotional bombs are flying from and Getting crushed under the pressure that Builds and Builds until you Bend and Bend until you finally Snap. And break down in tears, exhaustion and strife. And when you regain enough strength, you wave your tiny white flag in surrender, Hoping to put life on pause, even just for a moment In a feeble attempt to prepare yourself for the next attack Because these ruthless soldiers don't care if you can't handle the pain that they inflict and Without skipping a beat, a machine gun opens fire on your soul, leaving holes that make you question who you are and Your wounded, empty shell of a body is all that's left laying motionless on the ground and You hope like hell you can survive this teenage battlefield.
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Sep 25, 2011
Sep 25, 2011 at 12:39 AM UTC
Teenage Battlefield
She was a flower wild Wearing thrift store pair of shoes Holes in sleeves of her hoodie Jeans in all types of blues Knit sheets unmade on queen size bed Dreams Jersey or maybe New York Knows she's destined for simple things An average underachieving dork Pizza breath Bloodshot eyes Red as petals blooming A rose Whiskey shots over wine any day Toothpaste on tip of her nose Alabaster skin and crooked smile Knotted shoelaces on feet Hair tied A messy braid Freckled embrace emitting heat Shoulders carrying world The burden of it's weight Too prideful to ask for a helping hand When the heaviness is too great She believes love to be tangible word Favorite songs are always sad Can catch her staring out the window Reminiscing joy she long ago had She agreed to attend therapy But an appointment was never made Voice was simple to convince Body harder to persuade
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Apr 2, 2021
Apr 2, 2021 at 3:15 AM UTC
Wild Child
I have a whole list of things to do; Not just for myself, but for others too. Life is short and yet I do not care; This is my honest truth laid bare. Underachieving is a trait of mine; A recurring statement, an obvious sign? So far I'm surviving, Not thriving. Why won't I just do it?
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 6:31 PM UTC
Motivate me
mannerisms containing grace and beauty vanquish when conquering the internet's cruel anguish. feeding sins with apples that bloomed in the evening of february to survive in a fast world unreal to the underachieving. in solitude, her essence blooms despite her bruised virtuous soul that screams her damnation. in isolation, the substance of his being thrives in the waiting room of circumstances that bring prosperity. reprise a revolution for the modern age of devils, let them build e-tombs for the sensational forgotten. encourage the death of language for the birth of a new culture where the muted can still share words for the world to publicise. beware of trolls lingering between the lines of text fonts for a new plague has occurred with no treatment found to cure. the heat of a blush from "i love you" absent from the screen, the streets are a little too quiet for the comfort of elders. do not be frightful for a generation made from a future a past had conceived. do not be hopeful for the undoing of the internet. believe in amor fati, my dear, for this was inevitable.
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May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019 at 4:36 AM UTC
internet sixty-nine
you need an excuse, a quick simple lie rolling off the tip of your tongue to disguise the true reality of underachieving; there's actually no reason.
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 7:41 AM UTC
Excuse
We all have built up our ideas of what our futures have in store for us. We all assume our dreams are attainable, that we will be the lucky ones who become successful and rich and famous. When we fall short of our dreams, we have excuses. When something goes awry and we mister across misfortune, we come quick to our own defense; we quickly explain why we aren’t like the stereotype we appear to be emulating. If we’re all creating our own justification, how are there any stereotypes to begin with? “Yes, I cheated but I’m not your ‘typical’ homewrecking slut!”—What girl is saying that? She’s pleading, explaining why she didn’t mean it like that, why it was a mistake and it just kind of happened. Is everyone the stereotype? Is no one the stereotype? These expectations of ourselves move beyond our high school pursuits and passions. When we reach our adult careers, are we going to blame small things—like underperforming and underachieving on being tired? Or having an ‘off day’? What happens when that becomes a habit—everyday becomes that off day. When will we accept that it could simply be our personality flaws? You aren’t having a lazy day; you are a lazy person. I’m not acting ****** I’m just a ***** But what are you supposed to do when your personality rubs even someone the wrong way? At some point, isn’t someone supposed to be your friend? Isn’t that just how it works? Statistically, shouldn’t I have friends by now? But there’s no equation for personal relationships. n.d.
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Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 2:17 PM UTC
thoughts pt 1
We all have built up our ideas of what our futures have in store for us. We all assume our dreams are attainable, that we will be the lucky ones who become successful and rich and famous. When we fall short of our dreams, we have excuses. When something goes awry and we mister across misfortune, we come quick to our own defense; we quickly explain why we aren’t like the stereotype we appear to be emulating. If we’re all creating our own justification, how are there any stereotypes to begin with? “Yes, I cheated but I’m not your ‘typical’ homewrecking slut!”—What girl is saying that? She’s pleading, explaining why she didn’t mean it like that, why it was a mistake and it just kind of happened. Is everyone the stereotype? Is no one the stereotype? These expectations of ourselves move beyond our high school pursuits and passions. When we reach our adult careers, are we going to blame small things—like underperforming and underachieving on being tired? Or having an ‘off day’? What happens when that becomes a habit—everyday becomes that off day. When will we accept that it could simply be our personality flaws? You aren’t having a lazy day; you are a lazy person. I’m not acting ****** I’m just a ***** But what are you supposed to do when your personality rubs even someone the wrong way? At some point, isn’t someone supposed to be your friend? Isn’t that just how it works? Statistically, shouldn’t I have friends by now? But there’s no equation for personal relationships. n.d.
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Aiming for the stars But cannot reach the trees Trying to move mountains But running from the bees Tryna swim away but i can't wade in water.. Tryna warn the sheep.. Before they all get slaughtered..
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Jul 31, 2015
Jul 31, 2015 at 9:49 AM UTC
Underachieving