Poems About Confusion Seeking Friendly Advice
#confusion
adagio
Poem Published
29th Sep 2024 6:31pm
29th Sep 2024 6:31pm
Cashing In
Accumulating sins like lint on a second-hand
cashmere sweater indulging my eyes pandering
bimbos at Purgatory's Drivethru and Diners
canceling debts and cashing in my Poker Chips
waiting for Mr. Big to punch my Pass Goal Free
Card
I could get used to all this mascara covering up
veins and Harley Davidson tattoos. But do I have
to leave my mind's prosthesis behind or Mama
who is on the second shelf in the refrigerator
in a Tupperware container, dated, 1976
cashmere sweater indulging my eyes pandering
bimbos at Purgatory's Drivethru and Diners
canceling debts and cashing in my Poker Chips
waiting for Mr. Big to punch my Pass Goal Free
Card
I could get used to all this mascara covering up
veins and Harley Davidson tattoos. But do I have
to leave my mind's prosthesis behind or Mama
who is on the second shelf in the refrigerator
in a Tupperware container, dated, 1976
#confusion
#emptiness
#identity #dark
#identity #dark
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Madcinder
Poem Published
19th Sep 2024 3:17am
19th Sep 2024 3:17am
In The Light
Do you love?
Do you lie?
Do you lie awake at night?
Do you want?
Do you fight?
Do you do what's wrong or right?
In the light.
You said you love me, but baby is it true?
Do you want me, cause babe, I know I want you.
You told me you loved me, but that was a secret.
I know you're not talking, but why would you want to keep it?
Well do you love?
Do you lie?
Do you lie awake at night?
Do you want?
Do you fight?
Do you do what's wrong or right?
Do you love?
Do you lie? ...
Do you lie?
Do you lie awake at night?
Do you want?
Do you fight?
Do you do what's wrong or right?
In the light.
You said you love me, but baby is it true?
Do you want me, cause babe, I know I want you.
You told me you loved me, but that was a secret.
I know you're not talking, but why would you want to keep it?
Well do you love?
Do you lie?
Do you lie awake at night?
Do you want?
Do you fight?
Do you do what's wrong or right?
Do you love?
Do you lie? ...
#confusion
#lies
#love
#lyrics
#secrets
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Nic3456
Poem Published
15th Sep 2024 3:30pm
15th Sep 2024 3:30pm
Parents
Parents, oh the ones that care for you?
Parents, oh the ones that are supposed to love you?
Parents, oh yes those ones!
Was there something wrong with me? Where was your love?
Did it go out the window when you hit me?
Did it go out the window when you called me names?
But you love me?
Right?
The comfort you gave me was masked by your anger
The comfort... where?
The mask you put on when people were around
People thought you were great!
Behind closed doors,
The anger...
Towards me, each other...
Parents, oh the ones that are supposed to love you?
Parents, oh yes those ones!
Was there something wrong with me? Where was your love?
Did it go out the window when you hit me?
Did it go out the window when you called me names?
But you love me?
Right?
The comfort you gave me was masked by your anger
The comfort... where?
The mask you put on when people were around
People thought you were great!
Behind closed doors,
The anger...
Towards me, each other...
#anger
#confusion
#family
#father
#mother
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ChloesPoeticInk
Poem Published
13th Sep 2024 6:47pm
13th Sep 2024 6:47pm
Uncertainty of What’s Real
I wake up to the aching, a dull, relentless throb,
Is it the pain that’s real, or just my mind’s cruel job?
Each pulse, each sharp reminder, it grips me from within,
But is it truth I’m feeling, or just the place I’ve been?
The bottle sits beside me, its answers clear and close,
But every time I reach for it, I wonder if I’m lost.
Is this the hurt I think it is, or just another game?
I’ve danced this line so many times, I'm starting to forget my name.
The pain, it feels like fire, but am I fanning flames?
Or am I...
Is it the pain that’s real, or just my mind’s cruel job?
Each pulse, each sharp reminder, it grips me from within,
But is it truth I’m feeling, or just the place I’ve been?
The bottle sits beside me, its answers clear and close,
But every time I reach for it, I wonder if I’m lost.
Is this the hurt I think it is, or just another game?
I’ve danced this line so many times, I'm starting to forget my name.
The pain, it feels like fire, but am I fanning flames?
Or am I...
#anxiety
#apathy
#confusion
#emptiness
#frustration
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WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
12th Sep 2024 10:57pm
12th Sep 2024 10:57pm
thoughts percolate...
my heart wants to believe the best of others
but my mind...
holds a catalogue in memory
having borne witness to evidence
entirely to the contrary
& heart views a glass half full
mind sees it half empty
in truth...
it bears the same contents
it is...what it is
as a feather
plucked from a wing
no longer capable of flight
left merely to drift
near weightless
at the mercy of a current
such is the wandering of my thoughts
where heart sighs
& minds flinches
because we...
but my mind...
holds a catalogue in memory
having borne witness to evidence
entirely to the contrary
& heart views a glass half full
mind sees it half empty
in truth...
it bears the same contents
it is...what it is
as a feather
plucked from a wing
no longer capable of flight
left merely to drift
near weightless
at the mercy of a current
such is the wandering of my thoughts
where heart sighs
& minds flinches
because we...
#confessional
#confusion
#humankind
#memories
#SelfReflection
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ChloesPoeticInk
Poem Published
11th Sep 2024 10:29am
11th Sep 2024 10:29am
The Art of Becoming Who I'm Not
I've mastered the art of mimicry,
Bending and twisting, so you'd see
The person you want, not who I am,
A reflection caught in someone else’s plan.
I wear the masks you’ve tailored tight,
Changing my colours in your light.
But the weight of this act has grown too vast—
I’ve lost myself in shadows cast.
You think you know me, but it's a lie,
A crafted version built to satisfy.
I shape-shift, I mold, I rearrange,
A puzzle of fragments that feel so strange.
In your eyes, I’m whole, I’m sound, ...
Bending and twisting, so you'd see
The person you want, not who I am,
A reflection caught in someone else’s plan.
I wear the masks you’ve tailored tight,
Changing my colours in your light.
But the weight of this act has grown too vast—
I’ve lost myself in shadows cast.
You think you know me, but it's a lie,
A crafted version built to satisfy.
I shape-shift, I mold, I rearrange,
A puzzle of fragments that feel so strange.
In your eyes, I’m whole, I’m sound, ...
#confusion
#frustration
#heartbroken
#loneliness
#sadness
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sommerthe1st
Poem Published
11th Sep 2024 00:26am
11th Sep 2024 00:26am
Open
Like striking out burnt matches
Like arms reaching out
Like a quilt made up of patches
Like a never-ending doubt
Like an always-over sunset
Like a wave stretched on the shore
Like an all-consuming debt
Like “I couldn’t love you more”
Like drug-muffled panic
Like a tear-squeezed throat
Like hurt that is satanic
Like drowning just to float
So I'll send out this plea
All this just to say,
How could you turn your back on me
How could you walk away
Like arms reaching out
Like a quilt made up of patches
Like a never-ending doubt
Like an always-over sunset
Like a wave stretched on the shore
Like an all-consuming debt
Like “I couldn’t love you more”
Like drug-muffled panic
Like a tear-squeezed throat
Like hurt that is satanic
Like drowning just to float
So I'll send out this plea
All this just to say,
How could you turn your back on me
How could you walk away
#confusion
#deception
#emptiness
#heartbroken
#TimeHeals
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scalesofascorpion
Poem Published
10th Sep 2024 1:41am
10th Sep 2024 1:41am
crossroads
notifications like a wink in the dark
I keep a letter in the back of my bottom drawer
read every syllable of your elegant hand
twice over and I'll accept this friend request
could it be coincidence? are you who she sent
to meet me at the crossroads this time?
did just a thought of the past open the door?
the fear left and you stepped across the threshold
I know why I buried it
I never looked back over my shoulder
uncovered dirty truths within myself
now I can't help but to wonder
if all of that trauma was completely...
I keep a letter in the back of my bottom drawer
read every syllable of your elegant hand
twice over and I'll accept this friend request
could it be coincidence? are you who she sent
to meet me at the crossroads this time?
did just a thought of the past open the door?
the fear left and you stepped across the threshold
I know why I buried it
I never looked back over my shoulder
uncovered dirty truths within myself
now I can't help but to wonder
if all of that trauma was completely...
#confusion
#love
#regret
#relationships
#shame
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oskar
Poem Published
9th Sep 2024 1:53pm
9th Sep 2024 1:53pm
veterans
The veterans
JD Vance and Tim Waltz have in common
they have served and can call themselves
veterans, which has a sacred meaning
They joined to serve and defend America's
values of freedom and democracy
We know that for the two above, it was
about further education, to join but too long
and get out when the going got tough
Still, they are veterans who served.
I think of the men from the many small towns
unknown by most people, they joined and
was sent to Vietnam, fighting a war in
the name for freedom and democracy ...
JD Vance and Tim Waltz have in common
they have served and can call themselves
veterans, which has a sacred meaning
They joined to serve and defend America's
values of freedom and democracy
We know that for the two above, it was
about further education, to join but too long
and get out when the going got tough
Still, they are veterans who served.
I think of the men from the many small towns
unknown by most people, they joined and
was sent to Vietnam, fighting a war in
the name for freedom and democracy ...
#confusion
#dark
#denial
#fear
#hate
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oskar
Poem Published
1st Sep 2024 4:12pm
1st Sep 2024 4:12pm
the Gaza hostages
Gaza's hostages
When IDF tried to free six of Hamas hostages
holed up in a tunnel, the six, two women and
four men were found dead
three questions arise.
When were the hostages shot?
During the firefight?
Or were they sacrifices?
we know that the vile regime
the Israel regime is capable of anything foul
Hamas could have murdered
the hostages to stop the IDF from searching
for more hostages
When IDF tried to free six of Hamas hostages
holed up in a tunnel, the six, two women and
four men were found dead
three questions arise.
When were the hostages shot?
During the firefight?
Or were they sacrifices?
we know that the vile regime
the Israel regime is capable of anything foul
Hamas could have murdered
the hostages to stop the IDF from searching
for more hostages
#confusion
#dark
#fear
#frustration
#grief
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oskar
Poem Published
1st Sep 2024 1:09pm
1st Sep 2024 1:09pm
nuclear in Norway
Nuclear in Norway
Should the Russian army occupy Northerner Norway, they know the way
Last time they came and helped chase the Nazi army out and freed us was in 1945
Russia was popular after the war, Stalin was called Uncle Joe
This scared the USA it quickly sent the Marshal aid
there was a geo-political shift despite open borders
Relentless propaganda made Russians into monsters, but despite this, the borders were kept open
Norway is now embraced in the arms of the US/NATO yes it is the same thing they have 17 bases mostly up North
but has...
Should the Russian army occupy Northerner Norway, they know the way
Last time they came and helped chase the Nazi army out and freed us was in 1945
Russia was popular after the war, Stalin was called Uncle Joe
This scared the USA it quickly sent the Marshal aid
there was a geo-political shift despite open borders
Relentless propaganda made Russians into monsters, but despite this, the borders were kept open
Norway is now embraced in the arms of the US/NATO yes it is the same thing they have 17 bases mostly up North
but has...
#anger
#bittersweet
#boredom
#confusion
#dark
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oskar
Poem Published
31st Aug 2024 8:57am
31st Aug 2024 8:57am
forever war
forever wars
it is about survival
of our kind, sick is the love
between a cat and a pig
War is normal; do not intrude
into my world
You must be killed
You must not survive lest
you return and unclean
our way of life
So spoke the esteemed
rabbi, whose hatred defies
reasons
it is about survival
of our kind, sick is the love
between a cat and a pig
War is normal; do not intrude
into my world
You must be killed
You must not survive lest
you return and unclean
our way of life
So spoke the esteemed
rabbi, whose hatred defies
reasons
#anger
#confusion
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