Letting Down Poems | Examples

Depression

It starts again
It's hard to breath
Lord, I have so many unmet needs
Please help me stand 
I don't want to fall
You are God, in control of it all
This empty perception
Leads me into deception
This void in my heart
Breaks me apart
I can't move
I can barely speak
It's your love i desperately seek
The road has been long
And the journeys been hard
I'm finally letting down all of my guards
Take hold of my life
For I can't take much more
Help me persevere
What I was made for
In this silence I feel you near
You are the one who demolishes my fear
In this silence I feel you near
You are the treasure I now hold dear.

By: Sabina Nicole
JUne 12th

Opening The Door

You speak from the depths of your soul,
Of all the things you say you can't let go,
But my sweet loving man, I want you to see,
Opening your heart is actually setting you free,
Revealing instead of holding it inside,
Allowing yourself to release all that you hide,
The pressure that pushes your heart away,
That keeps things hidden away that prevents you from change,
Because let's be honest, change means letting down your guard,
And the ego constantly will fight against your heart,
But once you start to open the door.. the most beautiful thing happens, you start to see more,
You give of your heart, you start to relate,
And then others release their bondage because they see your faith,
Love starts to grow where weeds once lived,
Because you were willing to open your heart and give,
You gave a sense of safety where fear once resides 
And in doing so God replaced the fear with love inside,
To give of yourself more, to give again...
Against the fears of this world.. love wins in the end

Disarm Defenses

Prone to portray an image to have it all figured out 
Externally put together while internally pulled apart 

Ready to take off armor and start letting down guard
Reinforcing interior instead of constructing a façade 

Possible to flip the script to stop putting on a show
Displaying my mess instead as an opportunity to grow

Never Ending Tears

Never Ending Tears

Tears I shed all day and night
You cannot imagine what I fight,
Tears I shed of letting down someone I love
It just have become more tough.

Tears force me down on my knees
Can you hear me just for one please?
I loss the meaning of life
Just like your words stabbed my heart like a knife.

Inside me wants to scream
Craving for your love is forever my dream,
I have become so obsessed
It's so hard for me to confess.
Tears I shed all day and night
You cannot imagine what I fight.

Coronation

Coronation
By Michelle Morris
05/05/2023

I wonder how King Charles feels
On the eve of his coronation
Disquiet or fears about 
Letting down our nation?

Or perhaps calm and optimism
Joy, peace and happiness?
Confidence and trust
In his coronation being celebrated?

For heavy is the crown
And powerful is the throne
We mark this occasion
The uniting of our home

An historic investiture
A celebration of this moment
Embracing the future plans 
To connect us as a country 

May God bless our King
And lead him beside still waters
Through every challenge
And every accomplishment

May the crown be lightened
By faith and guidance
May our nation instil pride
In our hearts and minds 

© Michelle Morris, 2023

A Charade

Peaches have blossomed,
My heart has been doomed,
Your smile has my reality zoomed,
Towards your scarlet lips that I groomed.

Chasing your shadows blindly,
Hiding in your dark resignedly,
Glancing at how you smile divinely,
Looking at your dancing hair sublimely.

Following you in the dark,
Closing your ears to have people bark,
Living in your shadow as a worthless rock,
And hearing your syllables as of a lark.

Making my mind numb,
Having my heart splutter to crumb,
Letting down all my hopes with a hum,
You will be the only one to whom I will succumb.

Smoke

Today is one of the days I feel like smoke. 
Choking myself.... bottling every feeling, 
not allowing myself to breathe. 
Covering everything with white ashes, 
turning things monotonous...black and white. 

I am not kerosene yet. 

I am not kerosene yet...it never corrodes,
 it forms impenetrable layers…
not allowing a chance for reversal. 
Not letting down a breathe,
excluding from every other thing... 

I am not kerosene. Yet. 

I am not even wrapped in a warm blanket. 
I am cold. 

I'm cold.
Sitting in smoking temperatures, I am cold. 
Frozen. Numb. Insensitive. 

Not wrapped in a warm blanket, I sit cold.

Surprise Party

We spent all month planning 
The perfect surprise for you 
Conspiring with your family and friends 
To keep you from getting a clue 

Keeping all this from you 
Has been actually pretty hard 
You always seem so aware of things 
Never letting down your guard 

With all of this excitement 
It is you I wish I could tell. 
But I’m so excited to see your face 
When “Surprise!” is what we’ll yell 

When you see all the streamers 
And balloons all over the place 
The beaming look I hope to see 
Appear upon your face 
 
The time and date have come for you  
to walk through the front door 
“Surprise!” we yell as loud as we can 
Then stunned, you hit the floor. 
 
6/25/2021

Waterfall

When passing by the forest I saw a waterfall
Falling from a great huge brown rock wall
As a fairy land in a hole
Only nature, no bins or stalls

Silvery water falling high above
I wonder from where it comes
With a greeny environment so nice
I feel I'm lost but I can't run

I know I've fallen for it
As I saw a rock to sit
Sat there for hours but still
I don't think my heart is filled

After all I felt so cold
My mind is so relaxed as water drops
I wonder, Is this a silver cloth
Which somebody is letting down

I wish I could stay here forever
As a fairy, in a fairyland as in a show
wearing a silver dress which is so pretty
No beauty can compare as these so many

Vole and Trees Were In the Know

Maples were first at letting down their leaves they always go first actually.
Sycamore and oak were a day later; both let them go satisfactorily.
Their crispy waiting autumn leaves had been ripe for more than a little while,
But if they did not let maple go first, there would be a frown, not a smile.

Colorful eager leaves cascaded, sprinkled, floated, twisted, danced, and swirled.
They were like exotic Romanian scarf dancers with bound legs unfurled.
The pumpkins and squash sat rolling their jealous uncaring eyes.
They were always in perpetual grumpy moods. No big surprise!

A spider began making her way toward the barn gate.
The knowing farmer tried to stop her, but he was too late.
Her intricate web was already up, as fancy as any lace cloth.
A delicate piece of pure danger for any insect she caught.

From the house wafted delicious pumpkin spice and cinnamon smells
Perky pink nose from leaf pile turned west as by magic spells. 
Vole friend warned the mouse, I would not go in there. No way. 
The cat had an early lunch, and the mouse learned the hard way.

Written 9-9-2020
Contest Autumn Fall Rhyme Challenge
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

At Night

this is the moment after the loss,
the garden as heavy as a standing horse,
as a frozen moon hangs like a buoy at ebb

north is the direction of winter,
a stripped.down world before the crawl

i hear your letting down of the shutters,
your steps tired up the stairs

On the Inside

I feel so disconnected
Yet I am connected all the time
After years of living
A very solitary life
It has just hit me
Somewhere in my heart
I shut out the world
On a face to face
Fear of intimacy
Being hurt before
I locked up my feelings
Giving little of myself
To anyone, anymore
Pushing others away
Never letting down my guard
Forming no bonds
But always needing a friend
I am not thriving
Without human interactions
I get close to people
Only through their words
The poems they write
Weren’t even for me
Those are my relationships
I feel a connection
It has always been enough
That magical feeling I get
When I read something
That feels like it was written
Just for me

A Dark Fairy Tale

Once upon a time there lived an anxious girl,
Family, friends, and photography were her world,
With a heart that has been damaged yet is still made of pure gold,
Willing to give her soul to the world so that no one will ever have to be cold,
Anyone want my soul? SOLD.
I guess you could call me young and bold,
But why would a 21 year old want to sell her soul?
Such a selfless act so that the world wouldn’t have to be cold.
Once upon a time there lived a girl who loved too hard,
She was reluctantly tricked into letting down her guard,
By the time she realized it they were already way too far.
Once upon a time that same girl fell in love,
She’s spent 6 months going on 7 with her beloved,
Thus this is not what the ideal fairy tales are made of.

Adrenalin

Don’t get tired
But ride
Spinning never hide
Soul, soar the game blindside

Built equipped like a freight train minimize
Size never be another like me
Dinosaurs extinct can’t stop destiny
Every thing in me released

The beast
Everything in me they’ll see
Grave couldn’t hold science class astronomy
Pass anomaly 

Phase graced Tsunami
Covered grounds  
Beats by the pound humbly
Hold history

Die empty
Taking everything off the shelf
Plenty left
Plenty to give
Gave a sample snippet still popping pills

Feelings passed the emotions test
Bold took over brought out the best
What rest
Time to get it done
Hold back for what when what is pushing out production

Raising arms letting down hammers
Gather note books pen cameras to capture
Moves never recorded before 
Hold down every town wanting more

Score notes sing melodies from heavens door
Pore out painting canvas creative shore
Wave expecting hurricanes covering matters
Been ready
Been gunning down Safari scenes scatter 

Splatter sheets of success
What rest the beast bench pressed the test

Me

Pam
Mother, grandma, sister, and wife
Sister of Pat, Cori, and John
Lover of compassion, chocolate, and my family
Who feels pain, love, and hope
Who fears a shortage of chocolate, letting down my family, and not trying hard enough.
Who would like to see the earth healed, more compassion expressed, and Las Vegas.
Resident of Salem, Oregon
Deremer

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