Trouble

by Beautiful Tragedy   Mar 22, 2017


Hands shaking;
My thoughts race at a thousand miles a minute.
Bile slides around in my stomach,
Twisting and turning the insides as the acid eats away at it;
And yet I can't do anything but lay here.
I left work early;
Giving some pathetic excuse about a meeting I can't miss..
Something I seem to be doing a lot,
The leaving early part at least.
I know my boss is getting fed up with my call offs and excuses,
But at least my excuses are consistent with my home life;
Not total lies at least.
Despite my growling and upset stomach I take another hit of my cigarette
As my eyes continue to water like they have all day.
Am I crying?
With a lack of sleep my thoughts are almost incomplete,
But the thought of you almost never fails to enter my mind.
Jumbled thoughts and broken images somehow form into
Memories I'd long tucked away,
Reflecting back on everything I thought I knew back then,
To what I know now and it all just leaves me in a
Huddled mess under my bedspread.
You could say I'm depressed,
Or you could say I just have a lack of love for whatever kind of life this is.
Some say you shouldn't depend on others for happiness;
But that's not what I did.
I depended on you to help me see my worth.
But now that you're gone,
I'm having trouble doing it on my own.

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  • 7 years ago

    by Alex Penuelas

    Hang on. I think I have a poem that responds to this situation.
    Or, I'll just make one.
    In any case I'll send you it

  • 7 years ago

    by Therapoetic4

    Wow. Intense. If this is from a first person POV, I would just encourage you to carefully consider letting others "seeing your worth" as an indicator of your happiness. Obviously, the people we let in closest to us have a large impact on who we are/become... but at the same time, the only one you know can never leave you is the person in the mirror.

    • 7 years ago

      by Beautiful Tragedy

      It is from a first person POV yes.
      Also, in the last couple lines the speaker isn't saying that he/she is depending on others seeing his/her worth to be happy.
      The poem takes present place but is looking back and the last couple lines specifically indicate the the speaker may have had self esteem issues at one point. With that, the way the last two lines are worded indicate that the speaker possibly ran into someone who was trying to help him/her see it, and now they're not around, so (assuming) that that person was of importance to the speaker, the speaker is having self worth issues.
      Make sense?

  • 7 years ago

    by Wayne Gates

    I have been there myself. I love the phrase " You could say I'm depressed,
    Or you could say I just have a lack of love for whatever kind of life this is. "
    I have heard it said that a problem shared is a problem halved. I hope you find writing as therapeutic as I do.

    • 7 years ago

      by Beautiful Tragedy

      I do, actually. Writing has always been a way to get things out, to be honest without being judged.