19/04/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation
I am surrounded by the pressure
To be more than I am
And sometimes I don’t know
How I’m supposed to deal with that
The pressure isn’t from anywhere else
But inside my own mind
And I argue with myself endlessly
About what I should be doing
I wish I had the confidence
To achieve what I tell myself I should
Maybe one day I will
But today is not that day
Brilliant, this encompasses how I feel constantly. We all put enormous pressure on ourselves & sometimes a fake level of confidence in yourself can help get through. People on the outside would only see the confident person 😊
ReplyDeleteNot wanting to nitpick, but how is this poetry when there is no metre or rhyme? It reads like an ordinary paragraph of prose but it is presented as stanzas.
ReplyDeletePoetry doesn't have to have a specific metre, nor does it have to rhyme. Prose can also be poetic. This is poetry because I am a poet and I call it poetry. You don't have to agree, that's your right.
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