Best Overthought Poems

I thank the Gods that I can think
I'm so glad I have a brain
But often I do overthink
and feel closer to Insane.
I'm tired of these...

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Each of us live for the moment
As none are promised time
Not knowing which is our last
We make choices with that in mind

In life we bathe...

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To what eyes may be wandering, and whichever ears; pressed on wooden walls to grasp little hushes, may be present. I would but casually invite,...

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Argh resolution between
     self and eldest
     dear daughter more remote,
now then locating

     a...

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Quietly 
Without warning
It starts to rise
Like a ghost
It seeks your demise

In chest
Of peaceful being
It starts to boil
Sending her
Over the edge
Onto dry soil

Like dagger 
through Lung
Unease...

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When fear blocks your heart from seeing love,
It makes excuses and causes you to run,
Leading to confusion, you put yourself there,
The thinker overthought, yet he's...

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the heart is grandiose
in proportion to the mind
(accidental overdose;
the life that was never mine)
the problem with people
is the overthought
the simple, magnified- 
distraught....

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By: Ckolwethu Mthethwa

For this poetry serves as my medication...
A Prescription I take so in my mind there can be a separation 
Between what's real and...

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DIAGONALS
displaying
  spirituality
once
obscured
&sealed away
death.

 balancing
the  bright
&  bold
yet ephemeral
 possibility
  triggered by
 events
&memories
 discovered
&
considered
in
 too fragile

occasions
with  different
orientation
as
experiments as
  in abstraction
 conceiving
of self
 realised
besides
 intentions
of
modern mores
of correctness
notwithstanding
 raw
primal
reflection
on the sublime
magnitude
so
 overthought...

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The boy cried, as his anxiety becomes his fear, 
Yes, that boy, whom the world thought , doesnt shed a tear . 

He was strong...

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I made another mistake today
I just don't know what to say
I swore i was going to be better than yesterday
I beat myself down as I...

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I thought it’d take a mountain
A mountain moved and climbed
A thousand games of hide & seek
Before I’d ever find
The answer to the question
All-knowing, holy truth
Will...

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Why can't I choose what I want my human to think ?

Why must I be the one working all hours of the day?

Constantly filling my...

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I thought
And overthought
                      ...

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