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.
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I'm Not Crazy
There's so much turmoil
In my wrecked head
Some days it doesn't pay
To even get out of bed
I'm always taken so off guard
When I do get up
By those who just don't matter
With their social fantastical chatter
If you tell them to get a life
your words you'll see them splattered
Like the letters in a game of Scrabble
In senseless banter and pointless warble
Maybe, I'm not crazy after all
As I watch them falter and eventually fall
In my wrecked head
Some days it doesn't pay
To even get out of bed
I'm always taken so off guard
When I do get up
By those who just don't matter
With their social fantastical chatter
If you tell them to get a life
your words you'll see them splattered
Like the letters in a game of Scrabble
In senseless banter and pointless warble
Maybe, I'm not crazy after all
As I watch them falter and eventually fall
#anxiety
#identity
#LifeStruggles
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Unreasonable
It’s tough to deal with people who are difficult
They try your patience, they try your nerves
And though you may try to put yourself in their shoes
Your intuition should let know they’re being absurd
Unreasonable people are just blind to plain logic
They fail to see the irony, let alone their hypocrisy
And if you try to use reason and rationality with them
They are sure to erupt and be enraged by the audacity
They will use sarcasm and wit to deflect or avert
Trying to belittle you with their superior knowledge
But you’ll feel there...
They try your patience, they try your nerves
And though you may try to put yourself in their shoes
Your intuition should let know they’re being absurd
Unreasonable people are just blind to plain logic
They fail to see the irony, let alone their hypocrisy
And if you try to use reason and rationality with them
They are sure to erupt and be enraged by the audacity
They will use sarcasm and wit to deflect or avert
Trying to belittle you with their superior knowledge
But you’ll feel there...
#LifeStruggles
#memorial
#patience
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Winning
This whole world is my personal playground
And I get to choose how I play
I’m climbing a’top the chimney stacks
To better view this oh so glorious day
I’m sliding through these decrepit streets
Whizzing fast as I go by
Just let me fly up way way high and
I’ll tell you when to slow down
Only when you change your entire perspective
Can you really realise the truth of it all
That age is yet but a number
We’re forever in our youth
That you see
But this world keeps on spinning
I’m lost...
And I get to choose how I play
I’m climbing a’top the chimney stacks
To better view this oh so glorious day
I’m sliding through these decrepit streets
Whizzing fast as I go by
Just let me fly up way way high and
I’ll tell you when to slow down
Only when you change your entire perspective
Can you really realise the truth of it all
That age is yet but a number
We’re forever in our youth
That you see
But this world keeps on spinning
I’m lost...
#LifeStruggles
#myself
#NaPoWriMo2024 #philosophical
#NaPoWriMo2024 #philosophical
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Eye to Eye
Looking for someone to vent myself to
and if we share a similarity;
some tragedy that we have both gone through.
Perhaps we could just shed some clarity
on how the prior trauma fucked us up.
Numbing my brain by self-medicating.
I am three drinks in; please refill my cup.
Angry all the time, it is frustrating.
Even though this is bottled up inside
pieces of me break away and they get lost.
This is me, I no longer want to hide.
Years in depression paid at high cost.
Perhaps having someone who can relate.
can help us unburden some...
and if we share a similarity;
some tragedy that we have both gone through.
Perhaps we could just shed some clarity
on how the prior trauma fucked us up.
Numbing my brain by self-medicating.
I am three drinks in; please refill my cup.
Angry all the time, it is frustrating.
Even though this is bottled up inside
pieces of me break away and they get lost.
This is me, I no longer want to hide.
Years in depression paid at high cost.
Perhaps having someone who can relate.
can help us unburden some...
#NaPoWriMo2024
#sonnet
#depression #LifeStruggles
#depression #LifeStruggles
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Calloused Souls
Friction causes additions of calloused souls
#LifeStruggles
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Finding Hope
Amid a visceral pain
knowing I am alive
transient discomfort
where I often thrive
Through evident struggles
a place I find strength
fighting vicious battles
going to any length
Always a survivor
despite the suffering
remaining in a state
of constant recovering
Grateful for wisdoms
not easily learned
while enduring the storms
my life has been earned
Invariably discovering
a better means to cope
as long as I keep trying
forever finding hope
knowing I am alive
transient discomfort
where I often thrive
Through evident struggles
a place I find strength
fighting vicious battles
going to any length
Always a survivor
despite the suffering
remaining in a state
of constant recovering
Grateful for wisdoms
not easily learned
while enduring the storms
my life has been earned
Invariably discovering
a better means to cope
as long as I keep trying
forever finding hope
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Mass Approbation
"Look ma no hands,”
Is taken to extremes.
It's evolved into,
“Look world, nothing's
private,” it seems.
A constant hunger for flattery
to charge our self-esteem battery.
The value of Accomplishments,
opinions, art, even
that we exist is measured
in quantities of thumb's up,
likes, followers, and friends.
What's more disconcerting,
is asking the entire
cyber-race to rate one's appearance,
am I beautiful, desireable, run of the mill, or repugnant?
Laying bare ones ego
to lascivious flirting
and...
Is taken to extremes.
It's evolved into,
“Look world, nothing's
private,” it seems.
A constant hunger for flattery
to charge our self-esteem battery.
The value of Accomplishments,
opinions, art, even
that we exist is measured
in quantities of thumb's up,
likes, followers, and friends.
What's more disconcerting,
is asking the entire
cyber-race to rate one's appearance,
am I beautiful, desireable, run of the mill, or repugnant?
Laying bare ones ego
to lascivious flirting
and...
#LifeStruggles
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfWorth
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Another Year Gone Wrong
Memory’s splinters pain,
chaotic fragments never fuse,
failing to create a self
beyond psychotic illusions and delusions.
A front? A pretense? A maddened dream?
To explain requires some understanding,
but unformed self and wholesome others share such slight overlap
that lack of comprehension is the sole result -
any narrative requires a thread
beyond a desire, a whim, to alter stasis from within.
The chances of success
when isolated, incoherent thoughts of one,
which failed any test of rationality,
possessed ideas of superiority...
chaotic fragments never fuse,
failing to create a self
beyond psychotic illusions and delusions.
A front? A pretense? A maddened dream?
To explain requires some understanding,
but unformed self and wholesome others share such slight overlap
that lack of comprehension is the sole result -
any narrative requires a thread
beyond a desire, a whim, to alter stasis from within.
The chances of success
when isolated, incoherent thoughts of one,
which failed any test of rationality,
possessed ideas of superiority...
#despair
#disappointment
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#suffering
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Go
Which direction should you go?
Your inner compass spins with no destination
Four walls
No key
No door
Silence
It's too loud.
Too audible
Go
Take a step.
Lead
Don’t follow
You are the arrow
Create the destination
At the end
A new beginning
Go!
Your inner compass spins with no destination
Four walls
No key
No door
Silence
It's too loud.
Too audible
Go
Take a step.
Lead
Don’t follow
You are the arrow
Create the destination
At the end
A new beginning
Go!
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeStruggles
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Life?
Comprehension
Appreciation
Penetration
Fornication
Copulation
Insemination
Dissolution
Desolation
Dissatisfaction
Depression
Detestation
Strangulation
Annihilation
Expiration
Appreciation
Penetration
Fornication
Copulation
Insemination
Dissolution
Desolation
Dissatisfaction
Depression
Detestation
Strangulation
Annihilation
Expiration
#LifeCycle
#LifeStruggles
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Damn You
2 weeks of bliss
and then it came
back to bite me
the urge to eat
zone out and for
a while not feel
Damn you ED
the aftermath is
often the worst
KO on my sofa
all i feel is guilt
disgust, shame
a failure of a girl
knowing i have to
do this all over the
cleansing fasting
and press repeat
i am freaking tired
of this infinite Cycle
afraid it will never stop
and then it came
back to bite me
the urge to eat
zone out and for
a while not feel
Damn you ED
the aftermath is
often the worst
KO on my sofa
all i feel is guilt
disgust, shame
a failure of a girl
knowing i have to
do this all over the
cleansing fasting
and press repeat
i am freaking tired
of this infinite Cycle
afraid it will never stop
#EatingDisorder
#LifeStruggles
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Just another day
I wake up in the morning and the sun is shining bright
It's a pity, a shame that my life is so shite
As I put on my coat I knew I should have lied
Told work I ate something dodgy last night
I used to go in and I used to care
Made the most of my time whilst I was there
But it took me a while for me to open my eyes
No one else tries as much as I try
I tried not to drink and I tried not to smoke
The only enjoyment I had left was giving my girlfriend a poke
And even then work would take that away
They took out the p from...
It's a pity, a shame that my life is so shite
As I put on my coat I knew I should have lied
Told work I ate something dodgy last night
I used to go in and I used to care
Made the most of my time whilst I was there
But it took me a while for me to open my eyes
No one else tries as much as I try
I tried not to drink and I tried not to smoke
The only enjoyment I had left was giving my girlfriend a poke
And even then work would take that away
They took out the p from...
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
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2 Comments
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