For shining so bright, you burn out and die;
for soaring too close to the sun, you fall
to the hard earth below and crash: “Too high,”
judge the gods; so, as lesson to us all,
you're chastened for your lofty, prideful flight.
Like Icarus, I test life's great divide
between deity and men: visionary sight,
God-giv'n, and penetrating—eagle-eyed!
What seems like pride is for history to laud:
so, as Jesus the man was, so am I.
Only a God humbles another god;
that's destiny no man can e'er defy.
Though the world crucifies, God testifies
with fulsome laughter that I, His child, rise!
If you care an inkling, you wouldn’t behave the way you do!
If you care,
If you care,
You be here, with me, now !!
Let me see what you’re doing,
Let me see what you’re doing,
Let me see what you’re doing,
Now!!!
Fruits of my labor,
Is never enough,
Never enough,
Feel like I’m not enough!
Take a ride,
With the window down,
Drown in the ocean air,
Discover yourself beneath sea,
See what you are.
A burn out pulse
A burn out pulse
A burn out pulse
mixed up
scattered
confused
discombobulated
fractured
torn
shredded
fragmented
worn out
Tests and tests where do I start?
trying my hardest to be the best
Staying up, crying late well my mamma said "that's life it's tough"
Behind this pretty smile lay a depression that goes on for miles
Trying my hardest to keep my energy drink at my side
the only thing keeping me from being just another teenage suicide
I get it life is hard but this academic pressure pushes me too far
I wonder how I'm still holding up
cause I've had enough
Overworked, stressed, and depressed
I lay in my room at 3 am
with fresh red marks on my body
while I keep up the act of "teenage hottie"
Nobody knows my pain
as if it was all in vain
Nobody should feel the same
this monster consumes your brain
This isn't how it should turn out
Thank you, Academic burn-out
Tick-tock,
tick-tock,
Every wasted second,
A step down from the top.
Memorize every word,
Understand every line,
Solve every question,
Be productive all the time.
"I'm not prepared"
"I need to study more"
Sleep deprived and mentally exhausted,
Burning out,laying on the floor.
Stop overworking yourself please,
Nothing is worth more than you,
You'll give a hundred exams in your life,
Don't let the pressure overwhelm you.
Panic, anxiety,
They feed on your motivation,
Take a regular break,breathe
And get rid of any frustration.
No denying that marks are essential,
And hardwork is key,
But in the rush of pleasing everyone around you,
You will never truly be stress-free.
Burn Out The Day
We look into hearts of love to unfold
pause and really think before you write
Each of us is being examined by the world at large
With faces in the window having storms in the night
I think I'll pack it in & buy a pick up
look to the east cause momma that's where all the fun is...
Share with others your new found faith
There is strength in numbers have you forgotten Water Gate.
Spineless zombies in the river of lust
Exchanging lust for love to a world in a rush
Look at what those before us had to go through
A beautiful array of blissful care
Shattered glass out on the parchment decorum
eyes, ears & feet
A given chance at which to meet & greet
Warhol had his Campbell Soup Can's
Jessie Jackson had his slogan, "Yes we can"...
Rodney King just claimed, "Can't we all just get along".
Burn out the day, that's the end of this song.
Midnight girl with her moonlight eyes,
She shines colder than anything I’ve ever touched before-
Her starlight shattered across the windowpane like lightning withdrawals.
This love is starting to feel like a red shift,
You grow ever more distant and yet here we are.
Here we are with our two diverging futures
For we only stayed compatible for a red hot second-
Never trust a love like fire,
A love that can burn your palms and stain your soul a new color…
A love like that can leave you only ashes with no phoenix,
No recovery.
No rebirth.
This is our sunset,
But sunrise will bring me a new day,
A new lover, maybe, but I will be wary this time-
This time I know I’m looking for the quiet,
The one who can make time stop for an instant,
Can make the world slow its relentless spinning and sit like an old dog on the carpet
So we never reach the next orange horizon-
For now,
I’ll lay in the bed of my pick up,
Reach my hands up toward the stars I know,
The stars that most likely exist no longer,
And dream of a charcoal ember that won’t burn out.
4/20/2017
I had to flicker like a bengal light,
to feel as jolly and as cold
first snowflake setting on the nose
to melt...
Once stars have vanished from our sights,
what mattered was not quality of clouds,
but weight of doubts
has kept us safe enslaved
and promptly
burning out.
Eyes set as deep as ice,
The rage deep within burns once,
There will be a promising that it will be twice,
Fire is hard to put out
When your body steaming for its pleasure,
All that's on your mind
Is thinking whether will it come out in good measures?
Far as I am concerned,
Sometimes don't really mind
If anyone get's burned.
Sometimes I Have a Smile
But Lately It's Been Rare
I'm Not Even Too Sure Why
Or Even If I Care
I Have Too Much to Think about
And Don't Know Where to Start
I'm Pulled in Different Directions
Concerning Affairs of the Heart
My Mind Begins to Wander
Back to Happier Times
But They Were Few and Far Between
Even They Seem Hard to Find
I Don't Know What to Do
Or Which Way to Turn
Sometimes I Feel the Thing to Do
Is Simply Crash and Burn
Soon, I’ll stop this speed poetry.
Ink will dry into gun powder.
One last spark fueled by mental friction.
Poof.
Whoosh.
Up goes inspiration in conflagration.
Just ashes remain, unfit to even nourish Sari.
Wiped the tears from my eyes.
Starting over clean without your lies.
Have to go,I can not stay.
I love myself in a brand new way.
''A Short Poem Contest''...
written by..Kacey Greenlee
kaceymike29
here we go agin
what do I get myself in
once more I've got her crying
I gess I burn myself
let me fly away
fry out through the day
melt away to no where
what is that moon beam
in green eyes
my goddess in hur
let me fly away
my hart beat day by day
to hur sweat warmth