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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Freeway of the Stars
We're driving in a car without any wheels
We're drifting above water without any keel
We're flying on a jet without any wings
We made it this far, challenges that life brings
Such a long time, feels like a lifetime
To be where were at
We may stumble or tumble
Contort like an acrobat
Journey through the freeways of the stars
No one's business on how far we have to go
Each step we take is our choice as we continue to grow
We'll venture on as far as our eyes can see
Always & forever it will be just you...
We're drifting above water without any keel
We're flying on a jet without any wings
We made it this far, challenges that life brings
Such a long time, feels like a lifetime
To be where were at
We may stumble or tumble
Contort like an acrobat
Journey through the freeways of the stars
No one's business on how far we have to go
Each step we take is our choice as we continue to grow
We'll venture on as far as our eyes can see
Always & forever it will be just you...
#LifeStruggles
#love
#motivational
#rhyming
#uplifting
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implosion (a shrinking poem)
You come untethered
I would burn the world
just to be by your side
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
I burn the world
just to be by your side
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
I burn the world
just to be
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
I burn
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
your apocalypse
rips me apart
I would burn the world
just to be by your side
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
I burn the world
just to be by your side
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
I burn the world
just to be
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
I burn
as this apocalypse
rips you apart
You come untethered
your apocalypse
rips me apart
#LifeStruggles
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Birthed
Dawned the mask for many years
Being force-fed by constant fears
Irrelevance is the nemesis of man
If it doesn’t go according to plan
Symptom of a false environment
That seemed to stunt development
Within this damaged condition lie
A stalking virus that will never die
Locusts have come to feast on flesh
Humanity never quite learned to mesh
Down this road covering many miles
Wisdom was birthed by painful trials
Being force-fed by constant fears
Irrelevance is the nemesis of man
If it doesn’t go according to plan
Symptom of a false environment
That seemed to stunt development
Within this damaged condition lie
A stalking virus that will never die
Locusts have come to feast on flesh
Humanity never quite learned to mesh
Down this road covering many miles
Wisdom was birthed by painful trials
#LifeStruggles
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Pouring
Deep inside the mind
There's something calling
A child, so cold, so blind
In the depths it's falling
I'm awake too late
To see it rise anew
Some said it shall be fate
And those who hope are few
I feel caught in a landslide
Innocence is pushed aside
The world is calling and I am mute
Skies are burning, I lost my parachute
Fire and ash mean just another day
I'm made of mud, my ankles of clay
Lost in this furnace, the self-violence
Bleeds me until it ends in silence
I call. No words come out...
There's something calling
A child, so cold, so blind
In the depths it's falling
I'm awake too late
To see it rise anew
Some said it shall be fate
And those who hope are few
I feel caught in a landslide
Innocence is pushed aside
The world is calling and I am mute
Skies are burning, I lost my parachute
Fire and ash mean just another day
I'm made of mud, my ankles of clay
Lost in this furnace, the self-violence
Bleeds me until it ends in silence
I call. No words come out...
#rhyming
#suffering
#hurt #LifeStruggles
#hurt #LifeStruggles
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Fluidity (5-7-5)
Mascara
of
words
Run
like
tears
of
a
dark
sun
Eclipsed
echoes
bleed
by Jemia
of
words
Run
like
tears
of
a
dark
sun
Eclipsed
echoes
bleed
by Jemia
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeCycle
#LifeStruggles #philosophical
#LifeStruggles #philosophical
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Child Protective Services
Old enuff to catch a bullet ( U.S. Army at age 18)
But not old enuff to catch a buzz ( gotta be 21)
Old enuff to go to jail
(not talkn juvie, 18 cept for special circumstances)
But not old enuff to vape and inhale
(21 again. are we playing blackjack?)
Old enuff to go to prison
(18 again. but special dispensations allow children young as 12 to be tried with adult-level penalties)
But not old enuff to make sexual decisions (guess you're only adult enuff if someone dies)
If you really wanna "protect children" ...
But not old enuff to catch a buzz ( gotta be 21)
Old enuff to go to jail
(not talkn juvie, 18 cept for special circumstances)
But not old enuff to vape and inhale
(21 again. are we playing blackjack?)
Old enuff to go to prison
(18 again. but special dispensations allow children young as 12 to be tried with adult-level penalties)
But not old enuff to make sexual decisions (guess you're only adult enuff if someone dies)
If you really wanna "protect children" ...
#children
#HumanRights
#LifeStruggles
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Collateral Damage (DARQ)
Is this joy or just the illusion of it
When from origins of the diagnosis
I fall prey to the haunting of my own psychosis
And you say you want to know my story
But the anticlimactic reality is there is no glory
When it comes down to what is real and what is fake
When I’ve lost my heart a thousand times when misplaced bets finds honor at stake
Where do I begin to tell the tale of how this all started
But when those we love live in such a way
They breathe but absenteeism finds them alive as if dearly departed
And I circle the mountains in...
When from origins of the diagnosis
I fall prey to the haunting of my own psychosis
And you say you want to know my story
But the anticlimactic reality is there is no glory
When it comes down to what is real and what is fake
When I’ve lost my heart a thousand times when misplaced bets finds honor at stake
Where do I begin to tell the tale of how this all started
But when those we love live in such a way
They breathe but absenteeism finds them alive as if dearly departed
And I circle the mountains in...
#addiction
#anxiety
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
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Now He's into Mice and AI
In high school
he was into me
Groped me in my sparkly blue Firebird
as we listened to Billy Joel
I pushed him away
I can't help it, he said
You've got looks.
He was just part of my crowd
Never a close friend
Definitely not a boyfriend
Hadn't thought of him in ages
Looked him up on Facebook
His background photo shows mice
So does his portrait photo.
Mice!
Mice everywhere.
Hand built castles for mice
with tiny arched doorways,
and meticulously designed
little napping...
he was into me
Groped me in my sparkly blue Firebird
as we listened to Billy Joel
I pushed him away
I can't help it, he said
You've got looks.
He was just part of my crowd
Never a close friend
Definitely not a boyfriend
Hadn't thought of him in ages
Looked him up on Facebook
His background photo shows mice
So does his portrait photo.
Mice!
Mice everywhere.
Hand built castles for mice
with tiny arched doorways,
and meticulously designed
little napping...
#animals
#friendship
#LifeStruggles #surreal
#LifeStruggles #surreal
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Don’t Tell Me
#erotic
#LifeStruggles
#SelfDiscovery
#aging
#sex
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You Lose & You'll Come Back Again
The one arm bandit
Temptation lures you closer
Man versus machine
You know who will win
We humans come back for more
The house will prevail
Wallet getting thin
Lady luck please help me out
She's never around
I lost everything
Should I jump off this building
Nah, I'll be back again
Temptation lures you closer
Man versus machine
You know who will win
We humans come back for more
The house will prevail
Wallet getting thin
Lady luck please help me out
She's never around
I lost everything
Should I jump off this building
Nah, I'll be back again
#addiction
#haiku
#LifeStruggles
#temptation
#ThrillSeeking
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Change Of Season
Dusty relics of forgotten lore
Hidden behind lock and key
Shadows rise to hit the shore
While dreams wash out to sea
Stillborn inside a think tank
Where ideas get thrown around
An empty stare becomes blank
Till lightning strikes the ground
Archaic riddles flow like wine
Ambitious antics, numb surprise
On lost spirts the foolish dine
Speaking with hate in disguise
This world devours social graces
Working our bodies into powder
Walking amongst distorted faces
Twisted laughter growing louder
...
Hidden behind lock and key
Shadows rise to hit the shore
While dreams wash out to sea
Stillborn inside a think tank
Where ideas get thrown around
An empty stare becomes blank
Till lightning strikes the ground
Archaic riddles flow like wine
Ambitious antics, numb surprise
On lost spirts the foolish dine
Speaking with hate in disguise
This world devours social graces
Working our bodies into powder
Walking amongst distorted faces
Twisted laughter growing louder
...
#LifeStruggles
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Alone With The Ghosts Of My Mother
The times
After finding my mother dead
Between her bedroom, and the hallway
Were stark
And the nightmares
Then the funeral
Then the after funeral get together
At my mothers flat
I have only vague memories
Of conversations
Drifting over the ether of death
Then i watched
As people slowly dispersed
Becoming ghost like
As they left
Until there was only me
In an empty flat
Full of my recent nightmarish memories
And the stain on the floorboards
Where i'd found her lying
And her ashes on the...
After finding my mother dead
Between her bedroom, and the hallway
Were stark
And the nightmares
Then the funeral
Then the after funeral get together
At my mothers flat
I have only vague memories
Of conversations
Drifting over the ether of death
Then i watched
As people slowly dispersed
Becoming ghost like
As they left
Until there was only me
In an empty flat
Full of my recent nightmarish memories
And the stain on the floorboards
Where i'd found her lying
And her ashes on the...
#ghosts
#grief
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeStruggles
#nightmares
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DU Poetry : Poems about Life Struggles