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Writing Prompt

POEM STARTER

Submitted by TheQuillPen

Write a poem about giving up.

It doesn’t have to be negative, it can be about giving up something or someone that’s been holding you back.

Writings

Why Is This Life

I always think life is a lot

Things happen for no reason

I be like why this happen

Why it have to be like this

I just want it to stop

But than I remember why...

Giving Up

The sun crests over

The hill and her mother

“Stop pushing” they chant

And chant

And chant

Your eyes grow smaller

Eclipse...

First Love

“If you love something, set it free”

I never understood that

until you.


From the moment I met you,

you felt familiar

like I’d known you before.

Even as strangers,

you lit something in me

so pure

so rare

I just knew—you’d be everything.


You loved me gently.

You saw me,

held space for me,

gave me light

when I didn’t even know

there was any left in me.


You were my first love,

but more than that

yo...

Goodbye

goodbye to laughing at lunch

goodbye to patting eachother on the back

goodbye to smiles

goodbye to friendship

goodbye to knowing eachother

goodbye to time we have left

goodbye 22

goodbye algebra

goodbye to you


i’ve given up

trying to make

time go slower,

given up trying

to slow the inevitable

you leave, another

school and grade,

you always were

so old,


goodbye name calling

goodbye checking in o...

locked away

On the mend or at least I thought


Maybe I shouldn’t have spoken


From the day you put it to rest I should have never expected the door to reopen...

to be saved

when my ear is against my pillow-

the dew of your eyes still linger,

like a shadow, they follow.


your dead smile engraved

in to the depths of my brain-

from a kiss to a wave

i knew then, this couldn’t be saved


your face it reeked of despair

yet still, you pretended to be fair.

all you did was lie

and all i did was wonder why


and so i knew then, this couldn’t be saved....

Love

“Being hurt sucks but Love is the most beautiful and noble human emotion. It’s what gives a man hope, It’s what gives our life meaning. You can lock all your emotions away and try to control things in what you think may be a better way. Weather the pain you hold is long term or even if its temporary, Love will over power hate and support you even when you feel the worlds against you. Don’t turn yo...

What If This Is The Right Choice

What if this is the right choice? To

Let go of things

That mattered

But it still creates this longing for something that you cannot describe


What if this was the right choice? To

Leave an aching feeling

That created had so much

But it still was not enough


What if this was the right choice? To

Lift that weight off

That will free you from things you never could have imagined

But it still ...

I’m Done.

I give up. I’m not explaining this to you.


I deal w/ my shit every day; you can try to put up w/ it for an hour. A day.


You obviously don’t understand & can’t relate, not that you even want to try. You write my reasons as pathetic excuses for why I won’t or can’t do what you want me to do. You don’t listen. You won’t listen.


I have moderate anxiety. It’s very likely that I have ADD. I’ve also s...

Unsure

Does it decide

That seagull

As it glides?


Reach out and retreat

Governed by moon

And inner writhing tides.


Anger sweeps the beaches

Love paddles on the shore

One foot wet one foot dry


TIL the neap tide soaks

The dithering dark of your mind and

You are drenched.


Does it decide?

That seagull


glides....