Best Struggling Poems

12/12/19
"Struggling"

I've been struggling
Doing things that are puzzling
It's rather troubling
How much liquor I've been guzzling

Shiiiit
I admit

I'm not proud at all
I got a problem with alcohol
It'll be my downfall

If I don't fix it
Instead of always getting twisted
On my end, there's been a lot of resistance
It's been hard,...

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they're not speaking to me now, the Muses; 
they're being stubborn, 
witholding information, like beetle-browed accomplices - 
their mouths pulled tight as drawstring purses. 
they sit on their twin thrones of epiphany and genius, 
smiling silently, 
mockingly, while my fingers twitch with impotent yearning 
and...

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the most beautiful smile,
is the one that struggles through the tears....

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The government and its people stay on antagonistic sides
but what stimulates the rulers’ infidelity to patriotism
can easily be bought by any, over the counter.
They are desperately in need 
of sailors to guide through the storm
yet for some reasons, 
nurture a belief of so called anointed...

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I know
you know
you stole our property,
our mutual possession,
our sense of co-ownership,
of belonging together
to grow our health forever.

I know
you took it for your sole ungrateful possession,
to use for your self recreating purposes,
not a subject for open communication,
further evolution of whom we were becoming
together.

You know
I know
you stole...

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Dear God I been struggling all my life
for the sins I committed I paid the price
learned to live with regrets and sacrifice 
da da da da da da da da da da da




I contain unspeakable secrets in the depths of my mind
my eyes have witness...

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Sometimes I struggle to write a poem.
Frankly it's really hard to do 'em,
With the meter and rhyme,
I do think it's a crime
To write poems to rule, not what moves 'em....

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struggling
is my young tree
a peach or two...

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His stress is too much to take,
        drinking to self-medicate.
     Laid off from the job he loves
 Covid shutdown brings heartache


Date written: 02/03/2021...

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He maketh things on a dual- purpose:
He decreed work how can you doze?
He brought light but darkness you chose
O struggling soul to evil firmly oppose
Care not about the hardships a time so close
Will come for every act to disclose

 JAAFAR SADIG EL WAAD...

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I am a poet,
futile it may seem
in the realm
 I'm in
My word lost
its essence
against
the filtered ears
of the crowd,
It's subtle
as the mellow
gust of wind,
My words are frail,
for it can't pierce
the thickness
of your soul's wall
Wall thickened
by convention
your allowing,
But here i am,
striving to write
the song
 I'll be singing,
hoping...

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If I became a paranoid schizophrenic
I would begin channeling Jesus of Nazareth
but, instead, dealing with my real world dysfunctional family,
with co-messianically depressing delusions
refracting illusions of gift-it-forward co-redemptive grandeur
leading pilgrim explorations into remembering embryonic hopes
of and for regenerativity
as clearing out remaining cognitive-affective dissonance
about messiah life ecopolitical...

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In spite of everything I try to do
I so terribly miss you!
You were my rock, my inspiration
No other can touch your magical sensation
After all our wonderful years
It is clear you have no peers
I will always cherish what we had
Reflecting back makes me so glad!...

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In the 8th grade, I realized something
I was overweight
Fat 
And in my eyes unattractive
So I started starving myself 
Me a 13-year-old starving so that I could be skinny
Pretty
Successful
Loved
That's what I assumed you needed
I thought that wearing a size 18 in dresses was a disgrace
I felt...

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When last we spoke 
	An image came

This latest journey 
	The latest challenge 

That will test
	The strength of 

Our RESOLVE to
	Build upon the love

Begun long ago	
	Now re-inspired

Hesitant at first like the 
	Faltering steps of a foal in spring 

Struggling to stand 
	Kicking up its heels 

Now...

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