#risk poems on Hello Poetry

Sachiko Jul 2019

Today, he can see the clouds are in tears.
The pouring rain somehow knows what he feels.
Yesterday, he stopped at the dark corner.
He was comparable to the gloomy weather.
Tomorrow, he might be smiling widely.
The sun will rise to bring faith you’ll see.
Well, Everyday is different for him, and for us.
Surprises can be a little bit overwhelming.
He didn’t even bother to guess;
Because no one can tell about our own journey.
He just took the risk and didn’t quite understand his own destination.
“Where to go”, a question he forgot to ask, and he just left while holding on with his trust.
A trust he gave to himself to build his own passion,
Maybe, at that time, he was doubting if it was all just a destruction.

Life is unpredictable. We don't know the answers about everything. But somehow, all you just have to trust yourself, and the process.

#take #risk #trust #yourself

Zeth Jul 2019

Offer A Foot

As I take a step up
in this automobile, with blurry
visions of ecstasy, and deep
breaths of blue and red but black
they were colorless though
like a song you have not
heard but you sang it
with eyes closed, oh I am
the gambit of my game
lest foes forget I name these
scars, either wounded, or burnt,
impaled, abused, got used
I find rest in the slightest
dot of light, or if none, **** you
but I can make one, and let
the sun shine in the east,
then in my heart, but I won't melt
not anymore, and dwell in your
short-lived promises of hope
let me offer a foot now, to the
Grim Reaper, if he takes me I know
I lived.

#dreams #risk #hope #self #strong #colors #song #sun #shine

That Girl Jul 2019

remind me later

I’m like the update reminder on my computer
remind me in an hour...
remind me tonight..
remind me tomorrow...
later...
what happens when I update
will I perform better
or just be slower than before
is the update really worth the risk?

#change #remindme #risk #computer #technology #later #fear

Nina Jul 2019

Acceptable pain

You're a poison to my heart
That's slowly killing me
But it's a pain
I wouldn't mind having
If it means that I could be with you

#suffer #pain #poison #killingme #risk

Lexi Snow Jul 2019

Just say Yes

Let’s take that risk
Why don’t we change things up?
I jumped first
You either got pulled in or you jumped right after me
Either way
You jumped after me
No amount of words can tell you how happy I am
That’s a lie
Everything about that moment was
Breathtaking
I wish you could hear my thoughts in that moment
They were screaming
Chanting
Sending all the positivity in my life
Once you said that answer
I was overjoyed
In that moment
I felt like a kid on their birthday
I wanted to jump out of my skin
Every time I thought about this moment
I thought it’d be in person and the other way around
But hey, you can’t always have it all
I am just happy that I might get my chance
This chance will test it all
Let’s just take that risk together
Don’t choose to go back on your word
Since this was a bigger jump for me than you.
So like I said, Just say Yes.

#love #happiness #yes #kid #positive #risk #change #scream #breathtaking #answer

Laokos Jun 2019

vela del lecho de muerte

don't you dare smile
in the face of the
day.  don't think for
a second that
you are in control
of your feelings.
see that person ahead?
don't acknowledge them.
head down, eyes forward,
mouth shut, heart
closed.
...good, now you're
getting the hang of
it.  now, accept everyone
else's authority but
your own, amass financial
debt, relieve yourself
with the proper drugs,
find someone under
the same
enchantment as you
and call it love.
have kids because it's
the next step.  raise them
in your image.
then,

watch them repeat the
same cycles
and as you're dying, have
a flash-thought-
  "did I even notice who I was?  what I wanted for this life?"
and as the thresh
ceases to be held you
light a candle of hope-
your love the spark,
your children the fed flame.
you say,
     "they will sever the momentum I couldn't, they will
          see it."
-after all they are made
to be better than you,
not simply blind copies.
yet as the kaleidoscopic walls
usher you on you wonder,
     "how many of my ancestors have lit this same vela del lecho
         de muerte?  how many were hoping it was their daughter or
            son?"

the security of tradition and
the risk-reward of novelty
played out across
lineages.  both correct
and incorrect in their
own ways...

which one reaches through
the ages and hums
in
your spine?

#deathbed #candle #cycles #tradition #novelty #risk #safety

Lynn Jun 2019

Risk and Life

The Ocean
   she’s wild and unpredictable
That is what makes her so much fun
   she’s a risk.
She may toss you senseless in
   her unending watery folds
Or perhaps envelope you gently in
   a shallow blanket.
Power...
soft enough to give life
strong enough to drown it away.

#ocean #powerful #life #risk

farhan Jun 2019

Soldier

A soldier
Is only remembered
When he dies in battle.

#soldier #war #battle #remember #risk

The Invisible Lantern Jun 2019

Go Fall in Love

You can't live a beautiful life
Without getting a few scars.

#love #risk #romance #life #growth #excitement