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: 216.73.216.177
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
drenched in the way your words press into my core like a nucleur expectation i grew with the weight of three worlds on my shoulders. fragile as i was , i attempted to carry all of them: your last chance , your last chance to prove that you ,were a good parent . my last chance to prove i'm more than a kid from the streets. their last chance to see someone actually make it. mistakes surround me, failures in my blood thicker than our relation. i feel it, pulsating , as the tempermental flares send uv flames onto my trembling limp limbs. controlled by wanting , wanting to exceed, wanting to meet, at some halfway point just so i know that I'm making progress. because i've been running in footsteps so many have tred that they have started to wear, and soon I can't see if I'm still standing in a shadow or paving my own concrete. i'm not a god, and I can't do everything. failure , taunting me whispering that i will never be anything more that another human being, striving for the power of the gods, for the perfection of the heavens. But I don't really mind my imperfection because I've come to realize that I can never be a god with these feet that have been planted firmly on this ground and no matter how many pairs of wings I've managed to fabricate We can't all be Icarus. I can walk, on this ground, as clumsy as I am, making mistakes and saying to the blood that I fear. "I'll be okay" and though your expectations torment me. Your words so contradicting, your hopes foreshadow fears, and create doubts of being anything.. but I don't let them weigh me down And though I may never fly, at least I'll hover.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required