The problem

Moving to a new house after ten years of living on top of that ever still soil your house lays on.

Your parents arguments shook you down like a game of Jenga,

each block that is pulled stretches the fine line of sanity you have left,

trying to deny that the power of this game has the power to make things change.

 

Each pull dangerously close to falling,

All you want to do is place your hand over the tower of blocks so that you may at least soften the blow from the fall.

Your words are trapped inside your mind,

paralyzed at the thought of not having your parents together by your side.

 

In school your confidence begins to decrease.

You deny yourself the right to speak to that person your heart beats the number 130/80,

focusing more on the probability of having blood pressure and ignoring what your heart seeks.

Soon you believe your friends see you as a disease.

lost and lonely your future feels bleak.

 

Stuck inside your head while being fixated on your anatomy,

you focus on your body,

from it’s white blood cells and enzymes to those Raccoon looking eyes,

while staring at the mirror,  self-esteem believes that you have committed some sort of crime.


 

Self-esteem believes…

since when have I become so divided.

 

I ran out into the streets searching for my confidence like a reckless freak.

I suddenly felt the wind,

thinking “the faster I run the more solid the wind becomes”,

I realized that I lost focus on those “problems”.

 

I gave up on trying to solve those “problems”,

Slowly like the wind my problems faded with the air,

as soon as I slowed down and did not give a care.

 

How great is it to not give a care and look at the world,

not expecting it to get better or worse.

Not caring for the possibility that I am cursed.

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My family

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