Showing posts with label Expectations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expectations. Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Dread Omen

The dropping feeling in your gut
People may say it is cliché
But have you ever experienced it
Then you too will say

That horrid silence of no breath
Mixed with the dreadful emptiness
Of the stomach filled with anticipation
Sprinkled with the endless heartbeat

Racing time in reverse
Slow motion seems endless
Right on cue as if you would rehearse
But who wants this practice?

Wishing it wasn’t so familiar
Wanting to flee from this dread omen
The draw to go run, hide, die, disappear
All to avoid that look, disappointment

Anger, rage, silence, d-day
Something and everything
It shall happen either way
Let the dread omen sing

Only time will truly tell
But past and premonition foretells
Fallen into trap and spell
Stomach knotted, bottomless wells

Don’t deny it now, I’m already sold
It’s sure to come soon
The future has been told
It happened already last sun and moon

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Poster Child

Always in the shadow

Blown away as nothing important

Compared against one another always

Described as mediocre and insufficient

Everything seems to be wrong

For we are never going to be

Good enough for them

High expectations and norms set

Instead of praising that done well

Just simply critiques all that’s not

Knowing that somebody somewhere

Lies a bit higher up on that scale

Matching up qualities and activities

Not once beating them to come up on top

Only coming close, but that is not enough

Poster child, poster child

Queen and king of a perfect world

Ruling unknowingly

Suspecting naught of all the criticisms

They bring upon those striving for that perfection

Utopia unattainable when constantly,

Violently berated for all

We have done that does not please

Xenophobic hypocrites

Yielding their power and words to tear down

Zealous individuals until they doubt all