Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 216.73.216.32
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
Ask my parents. They’ll tell you, my favorite phrase, growing up was, “I can do it all by myself.” One day, I sat, spinning the top of my Flintstones vitamin bottle, wondering, how many spins until this thing opens. My mom insisted that she help. No, I told her, I can do it all by myself, and I’ve been doing this all by myself this, college thing. In case you were wondering, I’m getting out of here with a fantastic GPA and a pretty impressive résumé, I don’t know about you, but for me, college, is great. Except for, you know, my tendency to sometimes, a lot of the time, procrastinate. Hey Facebook, hey old yearbook. Is that picture frame hanging quite right? Oh, what’s that? You want me to count the stars? Sure, just give me a long enough essay to write. Maybe one that’s worth 20% of my grade with a potential to ruin my GPA when I need a 3.7. No I need a 3.8 if I even want to put it on my résumé because I want something more than that 9-5, computer drive making just enough to eat, maybe this week I’ll survive. So I know, I know, it’s just an essay. But it’s also just my life and I don’t want to write it wrong, so I guess I’m not getting any sleep tonight. And I get it, I’m a perfectionist. trust me, I’ve googled enough on it to write a Bible on it but nothing on the self-help sites seem to help. And there was that one week I resorted to punishing myself by painting read tally marks on my biceps for every night of the week I failed myself, but how can I tell anyone this? That it took me three whole hours to write a goddamned sentence. How pathetic. I’m too old for the self harm so, how do I fix this? How do I fix this? How do I sleep? Because I’ve gotten something like 10 hours if it this week and when I’m driving late at night the snakes turn into lines I mean the lines turn into snakes sometimes I hallucinate and everything starts spinning in circles like the tops of bottles of vitamins. And I’ll start running in circles are walking in circles are crawling in circles, or just lying on the ground, treating my iPod shuffle like a magic eight ball maybe the front bottoms will tell me what to do when I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. Last night, my form started to look a lot like canvases, and I don’t own too many long sleeve shirts so before I go out and buy one more long, sleeved shirt, I thought I try something else, so this is me, finally, admitting, that, maybe, I can’t, do this, all by, myself.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required