I was young, bright full of promise, full of light.
High school passed in a blur,
a victory too soon, too fast.
They cheered, they clapped,
Mom wept with pride,
but I barely had time to feel it.
Then the world changed.
Tertiary welcomed me,
but fate had other plans.
A silent storm stole my path,
cutting dreams before they could bloom.
I searched, I fought, I worked,
but each day felt the same.
The hours passed, yet I remained stuck.
Now, I drift through life,
a ghost in my own skin.
The child who once raced ahead,
now stumbles through the past.
And all I have are words not answers, not peace,
just echoes of a question that whispers through the silence:
Where did I go wrong?
Categories:
go wrong, absence, analogy, character, work,
Form: Free verse
Preventing domestic contratemps
from morphing to explosions
requires tact, diplomacy, finesse
ability to decipher emotions ~
On armed cops my town relies
Categories:
go wrong, anger, conflict, family, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Things do go wrong sometimes
And when the road seems to be up hill
Don’t quit
When your finance is low
Don’t quit
You try to smile but
Frown instead
Don’t quit
When distress press you down
Don’t quit
Take a break if you must
But don’t quit
Living life is strange
Lots of twists and turns
We much learn to live
and not quit
Many of failure may come
But don’t quit
Don’t give up
Though the pace may seem slow
Don’t quit
Success maybe right around the corner
Don’t quit
When things seems worst
Don’t quit
With all the negative words that comes
Don’t quit
You are just around the corner
Of positive things that might be
Don’t quit, don’t quit
Categories:
go wrong, age, america, beauty, birth,
Form: Free verse
They say that God gave us parents on earth,
To care and nurture us and show us what we are worth.
Care and protection should be the order of the day,
Instead of abuse while we work or even play.
It’s quite puzzling to me how we are often treated,
Like nothing to some, broken and defeated.
How did you get to be this way?
Telling us not to do as you do but what you say?
You have failed in the role He gave you,
And you are being held accountable too.
Wise up! try and be strong,
For somewhere along the way, parents, you have gone wrong.
Categories:
go wrong, absence, abuse, betrayal, child,
Form: Rhyme
Can it be done? One asked.
I am unsure and afraid said another.
So many things could go wrong.
It never worked before.
In the meantime a woman did it.
Categories:
go wrong, woman,
Form: Free verse
I can understand,
what your heart tells me.
Language of your body,
words under me.
Above your head,
I do not see.
Below my head,
You don't see me.
Where do I go wrong?...
Everything I show,
you blow.
Everything you throw,
I swallow.
My body aches
when clock starts to break.
Your body seems to shake
From your lies I don't take.
Leave me now,
if you'll always go wrong.
I did all for love so strong,
ask yourself, "Where do I go wrong?"
Categories:
go wrong, anger, break up, crazy,
Form: Lyric
I can’t help but wonder what I did that was so wrong.
I raised my child with good morals and lots of love.
I know that at a time like this, I have to be strong,
But I just roll my eyes and look to the skies above.
Ever since she was young, she wanted to change the world.
She never shared her ideals about how she would do that.
I sometimes wonder what happened to my little girl
That jaded her enough to become a Democrat.
Categories:
go wrong, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Until we met the Covid 19
We have never ask ourselves
Did anything go wrong
Until we encountered
The most frightening epidermic
We never know
The longest fight
The hardest to control
Until deaths swept across madly
We never know
There are so much uncertainities
But one thing is sure that
We have to fight worldwide
We have to share among us
We have to cooperate eternally
We have to help each other
In the name To Survive
Categories:
go wrong, sick,
Form: Free verse
She told me that I'd best obey
My daughter always has her way
When I say 'No,' she stomps and pouts
Then calls her friends to cuss me out
I don't know why she acts so mean
I fulfill her every dream
With the latest tech and clothes
She's a fashionista head to toe
She's realized all of her fantasies
Except, I guess, getting rid of me
Categories:
go wrong, abuse, america, mother daughter,
Form: Couplet
As I sit here wondering where I went wrong
I didn’t expect my love for you to be this strong
A smile that brightens up my day
Eyes that sparkle like diamonds under a moonlit sky
I know I make mistakes that irritate you
I do this because I love you
A caring heart I’m trying to win
But feels like I have violated a sin
I have been hurt many times before
But being with you is all I ask for
I want to hold you in my arms
To protect you from other people’s harm
As my love for you keeps getting strong
I still wonder where I went wrong
I will keep loving you from afar
Even though I might go too far
If your love for me is just as strong
Please tell me where I went wrong
My love for you will always be strong
So I hope we can still get along
Categories:
go wrong, black love, crush, cute
Form: Rhyme
Sounds of Silence !
Where did it all go wrong ?
What brought on this Silence ?
Bitter is the taste of cold, gray winds of silence.
A formidable force that harbours shadows.
Shadows fragment, splinter, dissipate with times passing.
Time becoming the purveyor of so many questions.
Questions that receive no answers from the wind,
receive no answers from the unlit halls of silence.
Silence, enslaver of the story that could be told.
A story Silence has deemed to never set free,
remaining buried deep within its sarcophagus.
No birth realized from that prevailing, cold wind.
Still born is the essence, the heart of the story.
Yesterday, now flying upon the wings of history.
Those yesterdays will, it seems, never metamorphose
into a future, not any kind of actively shared future
as the story rides bareback upon the cold winds of Silence.
I am truly unable to fathom the essence, of this silence,
the depth of thought, of experience that gave it birth.
I know not the currents that drove all upon the jagged edge.
B. J. “A ” 2
March 25th 2019
Categories:
go wrong, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Where did we go wrong
We can't see right from wrong.
Home is not a Home.
Our good ol days are gone.
This Generation isn't strong.
Mom and Dad not home.
Our grandparents are dead and gone.
So who's to teach us right from wrong.
Children acting so damn grown.
True Love ; it's history
No one holds on
Only to who's right and who's wrong
Instead of fixing ; we just bale out and be gone
Because Love is not strong
Allowing Satan to break up our Home.
I ask again where did we go wrong.
Jesus was our true Love
Our concrete foundation
Our old Generation help keep our faith ol so strong.
They still Loved you even; when you we're wrong.
Momma & Daddy both worked to keep the family strong.
No matter where you strayed we we're always welcomed home.
Now do you see? This is just a taste of where we went wrong.
Categories:
go wrong, age, america, community, confusion,
Form: ABC
I'd always blame my mother
My father, sister, or brother
Yet when I finally looked in the mirror,
I saw my own face; there was no other!
Categories:
go wrong, character, irony, perspective, truth,
Form: Didactic
Well you won my heart even tho it was hard for you to do
Then you broke my heart after I had fallen madly
Head over heels for you so I wonder was it me, did I
Do something wrong...I wish I could find you and ask you
But you've been long since gone well sometimes
I wish I had never met you then your memory wouldn't
Haunt me every day and every night just sitting here
All alone by the phone in the shadow of candlelight
Wondering if I ever cross your mind after all this time
And still asking myself if I did something wrong...
There’s no doubt you left your mark on my heart
Although it's been many a moon since you've
Been gone well how long can my love for you
Go on, how long can I keep racking my brain
Trying to figure out Where I Went Wrong, love
I wish I knew, I wish I knew Where Did I Go
Wrong?
Categories:
go wrong, heart, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Where did I go wrong, I was an innocent dude
Then limericks took over and I became a bit crude
Must apologize my friends
Oops! Wet my Depends
Can't get rid of these bawdies to which I allude
Categories:
go wrong, silly,
Form: Limerick
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