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Things you should know

It's hard for me to sleep sometimes

because I'm thinking of what goes wrong.

You should know that there are people 

who have resorted to believing that their life is over,

or believing things will never get better,

people who don't believe in happiness.

And you know what?

They are not wrong.

Happiness is for fairytales or dreams come true.

That does not mean you cannot be happy.

But it means that when there are times of dreams coming true,

things don't stay that way.

Your first love is one happy blur,

but heartbreak can only come from that.

And some people can't get away from that,

and that is why there is so much depression, cutting, anxiety, suicide, 

and disbelief in happiness.

Peter said to Wendy,

"Think of the happiest things, and you can fly,"

think of the happiest things, and you can fly so high that you can touch the stars.

For that moment,

but it isn't happiness that controls most of our lives,

just a lucky, select few.

Our lives are overrun by other emotions,

not nessicarily by sadness,

some are controlled by anger,

some by fear,

or hopelessness,

or truth,

or a combination of some,

Everyone expieriences true sadness in their life.

Not brief, momentary sadness, like when someone dies,

but sadness caused by something that even I can't describe.

Life is not this happy place that everyone makes it out to be.

 

 

 

 

 

◄ Sky

Lonely Dancer ►

Comments

Claire

Tue 25th Oct 2016 14:15

Thank you for your feedback! Looking back, I agree with you about the extra "ands". Thanks again, Stu.

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Stu Buck

Tue 25th Oct 2016 09:32

claire this is excellent. there is so much i relate to in this. you use the poetic medium to dispense advice, but never come off preachy. i love the peter pan reference, it works within the structure of the poem.

Your first love is one happy blur,

but heartbreak can only come from that.

that is an excellent two lines and ones that im sure countless people can relate to (myself included)

ok, dislike time.

there's only one thing id change, and thats to remove the 'and's' from the following section;

and that is why there is so much depression

and cutting

and anxiety

and suicide

and disbelief in happiness.

this is a personal opinion, but i feel you are going for power and movement through repetition.

i like this method, however i feel the and's are superfluous. changing to a new line denotes a different meaning (in this instance) and as someone who reads poems aloud to people i can hear this part in my head sounding excellent on stage. the words themselves are enough, the 'and's' (again this is only my opinion) add nothing.

but overall i really enjoyed it. its uplifting through negativity, a great overall feel.

i look forward to reading more of your work.

Claire

Tue 25th Oct 2016 01:29

Please comment and give me feedback on all of my poems! I like to know what people like/dislike about my work.

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