Poems about Life Struggles
#LifeStruggles
Poems about life when things get tough, with difficult decisions to make or feeling like life is falling apart. Here you will find a range of life struggles expressed through poetry.
FeNyX
Poem Published
Today 11:34am
Today 11:34am
Reconciling A Wakeful Night Almost Slept
Abbreviated dreams dominate of late
I yawn awake hoping for clarity wishing for sleep
Personal histories scroll across haltingly
With love and lust scenes highlighted sparingly
Cold hot tea seeped in alabaster whims
Faded seared in moments dripped off the spoon
Feeling numbed warm softness cooled in hot sun
My eyes meandering over lonely domicile filled with thousands of old souls undone ...
A bright solitary Rose ... does beckon ...
I yawn awake hoping for clarity wishing for sleep
Personal histories scroll across haltingly
With love and lust scenes highlighted sparingly
Cold hot tea seeped in alabaster whims
Faded seared in moments dripped off the spoon
Feeling numbed warm softness cooled in hot sun
My eyes meandering over lonely domicile filled with thousands of old souls undone ...
A bright solitary Rose ... does beckon ...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
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7 Comments
drone
Poem Published
Today 11:17am
Today 11:17am
It Aches
Why is it
we abuse
knowledge
with intent
with ignorance
have we not become
a little Delusional
learning the fine art
of Stupidity
where there are
professors
who thickly gild
their stunted opinions
while gathering together
the like minded
the agreeable
the ones
who are Desperately
Trying
to find something
Anything
to feel that space
that aches
Deep
Within
A place
that words
cannot explain
we abuse
knowledge
with intent
with ignorance
have we not become
a little Delusional
learning the fine art
of Stupidity
where there are
professors
who thickly gild
their stunted opinions
while gathering together
the like minded
the agreeable
the ones
who are Desperately
Trying
to find something
Anything
to feel that space
that aches
Deep
Within
A place
that words
cannot explain
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
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Tardegrade
Poem Published
Today 7:22am
Today 7:22am
I don't like black licorice
A trip to the store to fetch something
Mom's approval to spend the change
If only I'd known how close you were
To breaking
You looked at the milk and the paltry change
Ten cents short
And instead of beating me,
As I flinched,
You cried
Torrents.
You were inconsolable,
I was suspicious and afraid
I found a corner and hid,
Chewing the bitter
Moments
Of a dark spiral tube
I watched in slow
Stillness until
Dad gets home and calls
And the ambulance arrives
...
Mom's approval to spend the change
If only I'd known how close you were
To breaking
You looked at the milk and the paltry change
Ten cents short
And instead of beating me,
As I flinched,
You cried
Torrents.
You were inconsolable,
I was suspicious and afraid
I found a corner and hid,
Chewing the bitter
Moments
Of a dark spiral tube
I watched in slow
Stillness until
Dad gets home and calls
And the ambulance arrives
...
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#bipolar
12 reads
2 Comments
RagingFlames
Poem Published
Today 2:47am
Today 2:47am
This devil within
Why don't you ever notice
Or maybe you just don't care
I'm here, I always have been!
I don't want to say this ain't fair
You know what...
I think I'm done
I'm sure someone will notice what's behind this devil
They will for sure be the one that won
Whatever...
Back to the days in which no one remembers
You wouldn't know
I didn't show anypne but my family members
This time I'm acting this way all the time
Or maybe you just don't care
I'm here, I always have been!
I don't want to say this ain't fair
You know what...
I think I'm done
I'm sure someone will notice what's behind this devil
They will for sure be the one that won
Whatever...
Back to the days in which no one remembers
You wouldn't know
I didn't show anypne but my family members
This time I'm acting this way all the time
#LifeStruggles
#UnrequitedLove
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PandoraUnleashed
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:13pm
Yesterday 9:13pm
The Unwelcome Guest
#dark
#LifeStruggles
#funny
#ShortStory
#metaphor
55 reads
24 Comments
Ely
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:40pm
Yesterday 6:40pm
Tanka
Tanka was
the social media
of its day...
one could comment
on any old thing...
the social media
of its day...
one could comment
on any old thing...
#LifeStruggles
#CallToAction
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0 Comments
drone
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:51pm
Yesterday 2:51pm
Ease
To be happy
is to be
comfortable
within ones
own mind
to ease
the suffering
of life
and the life's
of those
who surround you
is to be
comfortable
within ones
own mind
to ease
the suffering
of life
and the life's
of those
who surround you
#LifeStruggles
#LifeGoals
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2 Comments
LivDiane
Liv Diane
Liv Diane
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:44am
Yesterday 10:44am
I’ll Be Your Light
Come to me and lay down your woes
Let me hold you, until the feeling goes
I can’t promise much time, but this
I can promise you, so you always know
That I will be your light in the darkness
Hold your hand when the pain is too much
I won’t ask you to disclose your fears
I’ll just be here if you need my touch
I’ll always lend you my shoulder
You don’t have to cry, but I am here
We don’t have to talk about it
I just want to be there for you, my dear
I’ll be the ear to hear your silent cries
I’ll still be here,...
Let me hold you, until the feeling goes
I can’t promise much time, but this
I can promise you, so you always know
That I will be your light in the darkness
Hold your hand when the pain is too much
I won’t ask you to disclose your fears
I’ll just be here if you need my touch
I’ll always lend you my shoulder
You don’t have to cry, but I am here
We don’t have to talk about it
I just want to be there for you, my dear
I’ll be the ear to hear your silent cries
I’ll still be here,...
#friendship
#LifeStruggles
#support #hurt
#support #hurt
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24 Comments
JusTim_
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:39am
Yesterday 1:39am
Is It Too Early For Tequila?
Is it too early for tequila?
because wine just won't suffice
altered in misdirection
was any of this meant to be?
free basing raw vanilla
life has taken the best of me
how I got here?
your guess is as good as mine
living in the shadows of substance
missing only bars while I'm doing time
my heart bleeds my soul
but was passion ever seen
tongues can't talk cut in half
even in Latin life was mean
father's being father's...
because wine just won't suffice
altered in misdirection
was any of this meant to be?
free basing raw vanilla
life has taken the best of me
how I got here?
your guess is as good as mine
living in the shadows of substance
missing only bars while I'm doing time
my heart bleeds my soul
but was passion ever seen
tongues can't talk cut in half
even in Latin life was mean
father's being father's...
#LifeStruggles
#confessional
#SelfReflection
28 reads
6 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:58am
Yesterday 00:58am
the night cabbie ..
cab driver looks scary
where you going? he says
so I tell him my address
big mistake, he says ..
where you going? he says
so I tell him my address
big mistake, he says ..
#LifeStruggles
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5 Comments
Tallen
Poem Published
16th Mar 2019 11:47pm
16th Mar 2019 11:47pm
Scuttles
. . strolling through a concrete jungle
of no particular latitude or longitude
kicking empty cans that should have
been recycled a long long time ago
I guess
It was inevitable
I stumbled.
Falling into somebody’s worn out
Sandbox, I came across several
rusted out buckets.
These buckets were filled with dreams.
Left behind in haste
to escape
a decline of suburban rote living ----
would be my first thoughts. . .
impressions.
Why do we leave our dreams
Behind?
Is it because we are...
of no particular latitude or longitude
kicking empty cans that should have
been recycled a long long time ago
I guess
It was inevitable
I stumbled.
Falling into somebody’s worn out
Sandbox, I came across several
rusted out buckets.
These buckets were filled with dreams.
Left behind in haste
to escape
a decline of suburban rote living ----
would be my first thoughts. . .
impressions.
Why do we leave our dreams
Behind?
Is it because we are...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
34 reads
12 Comments
longsoftkiss
LSK
LSK
Poem Published
15th Mar 2019 6:51pm
15th Mar 2019 6:51pm
Fate
Do you believe in Fate?
That there is a master plan for you?
Where your ultimate destiny is inevitable,
Unbeknownst to you?
Do you think that you have complete control over your life and actions?
That each choice you make sets your life's path?
A mostly random set of choices based on a self-determined goal,
And in the end, that is all there is?
Quite the extremes - don't we suppose?
But, what if it was a combination of both beliefs?
Where Fate is merrily there to guide and provide opportunity?
But ultimately, it is our...
That there is a master plan for you?
Where your ultimate destiny is inevitable,
Unbeknownst to you?
Do you think that you have complete control over your life and actions?
That each choice you make sets your life's path?
A mostly random set of choices based on a self-determined goal,
And in the end, that is all there is?
Quite the extremes - don't we suppose?
But, what if it was a combination of both beliefs?
Where Fate is merrily there to guide and provide opportunity?
But ultimately, it is our...
#love
#LifeStruggles
#fate
#LifeGoals
#luck
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