Popular Poems About Life Struggles
#LifeStruggles
Popular poems about life struggles. Poems are listed in order of their popularity this month.
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
5th Apr 2025 00:27am
5th Apr 2025 00:27am
mind the drop
Rain turns wood to sponge
I don't notice until the rot gives way
and I
half fall through the decking
Times slows
and then speeds back up
as my hand finds the railing
unintentionally
I breathe hard
my body like jelly
balanced on one trembling leg
as I stare down the two metre drop
that could have taken me
Adrenaline masks the damage
of scratches from ankle to knee
and the way my back twisted
I don't know it yet
but my whole body
will pay for this misstep
...
I don't notice until the rot gives way
and I
half fall through the decking
Times slows
and then speeds back up
as my hand finds the railing
unintentionally
I breathe hard
my body like jelly
balanced on one trembling leg
as I stare down the two metre drop
that could have taken me
Adrenaline masks the damage
of scratches from ankle to knee
and the way my back twisted
I don't know it yet
but my whole body
will pay for this misstep
...
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
60 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
8th Apr 2025 10:17am
8th Apr 2025 10:17am
Abused
She was on her way home from a friend's house
A man raped her in the parking lot of her apartment building
30 feet from the entrance
At first she begged to let her go
He punched her, broke the left half of her jaw
She stopped resisting
It was better to just get it over with and hope that he didn't kill her
All the time he was raping her she could feel it
She didn't black out
She could feel her tearing her up inside
She tried to relax so it wouldn't hurt as much
Her jaw made bright blue sparks flash in front of her eyes every time he...
A man raped her in the parking lot of her apartment building
30 feet from the entrance
At first she begged to let her go
He punched her, broke the left half of her jaw
She stopped resisting
It was better to just get it over with and hope that he didn't kill her
All the time he was raping her she could feel it
She didn't black out
She could feel her tearing her up inside
She tried to relax so it wouldn't hurt as much
Her jaw made bright blue sparks flash in front of her eyes every time he...
#abuse
#depression
#LifeStruggles #MentalHealth
#LifeStruggles #MentalHealth
59 reads
4 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
3rd Apr 2025 7:53am
3rd Apr 2025 7:53am
they call the train station crack central (home town observations)
A pigeon was scavenging scraps
along the edge of the drive-thru
while we were waiting in line
for coffee and fries
and I imagined it pecking
on every car door
asking if we had any potato
and salt to spare
The people 'round here
aren't that much different
to that small grey pigeon
scavenging for scraps
and shiny things left on the ground
...
There's a family of shopping trolleys
around the corner from my house
that are filled with molding rubbish
It's only a matter of...
along the edge of the drive-thru
while we were waiting in line
for coffee and fries
and I imagined it pecking
on every car door
asking if we had any potato
and salt to spare
The people 'round here
aren't that much different
to that small grey pigeon
scavenging for scraps
and shiny things left on the ground
...
There's a family of shopping trolleys
around the corner from my house
that are filled with molding rubbish
It's only a matter of...
#addiction
#homelessness
#LifeStruggles #poverty
#LifeStruggles #poverty
67 reads
2 Comments
da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
23rd Feb 2025 8:22am
23rd Feb 2025 8:22am
Fares & Stairs
We must adjust our sails when the win(d) shifts
Sometimes changes of courses are divine gifts
Gotta sift through the rubble to get to hidden gems
When it feels like we're drowning, we must begin to swim
Whether breast stroke or back stroke, the stroke is a must
Going for broke cause loss of hope is a choke and a bust
Lust for success cause stress leads to impotence
Stay grinding and climaxing perseverance
The expense of living some days are hard to fare
Especially when steps don't land on crystal stairs
Slippery when wet...
Sometimes changes of courses are divine gifts
Gotta sift through the rubble to get to hidden gems
When it feels like we're drowning, we must begin to swim
Whether breast stroke or back stroke, the stroke is a must
Going for broke cause loss of hope is a choke and a bust
Lust for success cause stress leads to impotence
Stay grinding and climaxing perseverance
The expense of living some days are hard to fare
Especially when steps don't land on crystal stairs
Slippery when wet...
#LifeStruggles
135 reads
11 Comments
AfterSexDilemma
Poem Published
1st Apr 2025 9:47pm
1st Apr 2025 9:47pm
Ughhhh
When people,
Pretend they're not jerking off to you,
Act like they're trying to help.
Praise Jeebus!
Pretend they're not jerking off to you,
Act like they're trying to help.
Praise Jeebus!
#LifeStruggles
60 reads
3 Comments
SonderNinja
BenjaminEC
BenjaminEC
Poem Published
17th Mar 2025 8:37am
17th Mar 2025 8:37am
Quiet as a Church Mouse
roar~
It began:
where rusty tongs clutched & pulled a dusty crown
through doctored smoke by cries made silent,
forced to hide from old gods in the dark,
where lost marbles, found razors, & misplaced
books of hymns & matches filled the early days.
Where great husks of heart & rodent sausage
stayed alive the memory hunger.
Where grave voices herald bunking bone meal
in dangerous machines obsolete.
Where cop & carrier pigeons crossed wires
to create a fear of phones & voices.
Where...
It began:
where rusty tongs clutched & pulled a dusty crown
through doctored smoke by cries made silent,
forced to hide from old gods in the dark,
where lost marbles, found razors, & misplaced
books of hymns & matches filled the early days.
Where great husks of heart & rodent sausage
stayed alive the memory hunger.
Where grave voices herald bunking bone meal
in dangerous machines obsolete.
Where cop & carrier pigeons crossed wires
to create a fear of phones & voices.
Where...
#dark
#LifeStruggles
#memories #FreeVerse
#memories #FreeVerse
155 reads
4 Comments
Numer90
Numer0-un0
Numer0-un0
Poem Published
19th Mar 2025 1:57pm
19th Mar 2025 1:57pm
My Earliest Memories
Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
Friday, January 19, 1990, Late Evening
A baby boy was born after hours of intense labor. The medical team assigned male at birth.
My earliest memories
Are still listed among the most unsolved chronicles
Immediately after mum put to bed
Even before the midwife reaches for me
I stood up and walked with a waddle
So exhausted I placed my back on the wall of the room at an angle
Medical personnel in the room were all
Gobsmacked, shocked or brain dead! ...
Friday, January 19, 1990, Late Evening
A baby boy was born after hours of intense labor. The medical team assigned male at birth.
My earliest memories
Are still listed among the most unsolved chronicles
Immediately after mum put to bed
Even before the midwife reaches for me
I stood up and walked with a waddle
So exhausted I placed my back on the wall of the room at an angle
Medical personnel in the room were all
Gobsmacked, shocked or brain dead! ...
#LifeStruggles
66 reads
4 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
4th Apr 2025 2:05am
4th Apr 2025 2:05am
Evil Empire
I’m an advocate for compassion and empathy
But the recent political results left me disappointed
Now the world is lacking even more sympathy
While several leaders are illogical and disjointed
But I remember that before all this came to pass
I thought maybe we should let crazy take the wheel
I mean how often do you see a vehicle driven by an ass?
Spellbound by some witchcraft in the art of the steal
I think I wished for this so that all would be revealed
So that even the most blind would eventually learn
Thou shall fucketh...
But the recent political results left me disappointed
Now the world is lacking even more sympathy
While several leaders are illogical and disjointed
But I remember that before all this came to pass
I thought maybe we should let crazy take the wheel
I mean how often do you see a vehicle driven by an ass?
Spellbound by some witchcraft in the art of the steal
I think I wished for this so that all would be revealed
So that even the most blind would eventually learn
Thou shall fucketh...
#LifeStruggles
#magic
#philosophical
55 reads
1 Comment
backdeckbenny
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 8:33am
27th Mar 2025 8:33am
Hope
I'm stuck
an old shirt in the lost and found
a traumatized dog kept in a pound
or a bird behind some black prison bars
no, I'm just a human with too many scars
one day perhaps I might escape
with special magic wand and cape
to paradise no price to pay
if I don't die before that day
an old shirt in the lost and found
a traumatized dog kept in a pound
or a bird behind some black prison bars
no, I'm just a human with too many scars
one day perhaps I might escape
with special magic wand and cape
to paradise no price to pay
if I don't die before that day
#LifeStruggles
55 reads
0 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
22nd Mar 2025 1:47pm
22nd Mar 2025 1:47pm
The Great Escape Chapter 20, Part 2 of 6
#anxiety
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeStruggles #passion
#LifeStruggles #passion
39 reads
3 Comments
Lilliputian
Poem Published
5th Apr 2025 11:12am
5th Apr 2025 11:12am
Back to the Start
Am I sinking in a loop?
For every time I take a step forward,
My feet take two steps backward.
I restart,
Climbing rugged hills,
But my hands give out, and I tumble.
I restart,
Moving ahead,
Only to fall again, back to square one.
I restart,
And just as I catch a glimpse
Of the chequered flag,
I stumble down.
Every road I take,
Leads me back to the start.
I am sinking in a loop.
…
#despair
#LifeStruggles
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