Sometimes you have needs
Urges to just stop
Reasons for you yourself
To act like a robot
No reason to listen to others
Or do what they say
But a feeling if you dont
They will make you pay
For some reason you might feel
As if you cant change
What else there is for you
To go ahead and say
You have feelings for yourself
Hiding in your bones
And based on those around you
They're something you cant show
You have a reason
To let them out
But when you do
Its all just a cloud
Others say its not right
To feel all these things
When really they need to see
Why its happening
It could be anything
A mental disease
A disorder, or trauma like please
They won't let it go
They call you weird
They make you feel wrong
For crying some tears
They make you upset
By making you mad
They make you feel strange
And like emotions are bad
They make you feel
Like you're not allowed
To have what you want
To feel it all out
Sometimes you shove it
Up in your brain
Sometimes you hide it
Down in your pain
You hide what you feel
For the others you see
Your emotions feel wrong
Because they don't get you and me
You feel like its bad
Like you shouldn't feel
When really its great
For you to be real
Dont trust others
Trust yourself
Be who you are
Without their help
Dont let them rule you
Go rule yourself
Make yourself be the one who's right
Instead of themselves
Think of you
And not of them
Think what you want
Not what they'll say
Because if you listen to them
You might not make it another day
You know there is a reason
You feel all these things
And your reason
Could be anything
It could be a disease
A disorder you say
Or if at the worst
Trauma at the end of the day
They're making it worse
By making you sad
By telling tails
You wont feel glad
Spreading rumors
Doesn't help
But if they show you kindness
It's not always heart felt
Sometimes friends
Will hurt you too
Dont trust them
Just go trust you
#Sometimes you have needs
somber anchor
Type it out
Or speak your words
Because no matter what
You should be your first
Prioritys, you choose yours
But no matter what
Put yourself at the top
Of your very own list
And other people?
Put them at the bottom of it.
(the two messages are one poem, it was too long)
vivid lagoon
@somber anchor this is amazing 😲
There is sooo much to talk about in this poem there's so much I wanna say I love about it but I dont wanna be a nerd about it 😭😭 okay ima go full nerd anyways because this is too good not to, expect my response to be as long as your poem 😭
vivid lagoon
Like this is sooooo good the fact that you weren't fully into poetry is crazy.
I really like the style of it, I have a similar style in parts of my stuff too : )
The persistent ambiguity throughout the poem adds so much to the idea of being unsure of what to do, but it also adds something for the reader to think about like: what is it? whats this they're having these feelings about? is it one thing? is it multiple things? Is it the same as what I've been feeling? but it adds such a nice effect to the poem
One of my favourite things about it, I don't know if you did it intentionally, or if your feelings made it come out that way naturally (thats so cool if they did that happens in my poetry too I think). The fact it's all one stanza containing so much enjambment, it really brings through the overwhelming feelings of both confusion of the poet and the misunderstanding of others.
I LOVE the oscillating feeling in it. It like perfectly mirrors how how you were going back and forth between so many different feelings and you probably never felt like your mind could sit still?
This section in it hit me so hard and i felt like I really could relate so much to it:
"They won't let it go
They call you weird
They make you feel wrong
For crying some tears
They make you upset
By making you mad
They make you feel strange
And like emotions are bad
They make you feel
Like your not allowed
To have what you want
To feel it all out"
I really cant get over how much I relate to this poem 😭😭