• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Poetry of the 1500s
  • Poetry of the1600s
  • Poetry of the 1700s
  • Poems for Kids
  • War Poems
  • Every Poem

Every Day Poems

A Poem A Day

  • Home
  • Book Publishers
  • Literary Magazines
  • Stories
  • Poems
  • Promote Books
  • Advertise
  • Submit

Attention by Zachary Anthony

June 4, 2012 by Every Writer

Attention

by Zachary Anthony

ATTENTION.
Overwhelming,
normally unconscious,
Compulsion.

You throw yourself out there.

Was it worth it?
Everyone is laughing at you.
Everyone is cheering for you.
Everyone is trying to empathize with you.

But it feels wrong.
Your outburst,
Big or small.
Even now,
You want these words to be read.
Is it a good poem or bad?
If good, will people link it back to me,
Think highly of me?

ATTENTION.
But what is this snag in the pit of your stomach?
You emerge to consciousness,
See the first option:
Acting, dancing, joking, etc.
No matter how phony it may feel.

Shouldn’t you love to act or dance or joke?
But why do you just love the attention?

Second option:
Write for yourself,
For the fun it entails.
Sing from your heart,
Uncaring,
Only to give life to your own two feet.

Now,
You say,
I will abstain.
But how long can you withstand the pressure?
Attention
Attention!!!
ATTENTION!!!!!

Filed Under: Depression Poems

Primary Sidebar

AD




Search

Latest

I’ve Set Out All of the Traps for Us by Kiara Nicole Letcher

I start to miss you right after you leave
and then at night I feel a deep ache
in that need spot.

The Shaman by Larry D. Thomas

Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several award-winning and critically acclaimed collections of poetry

Now and Then

Phil Huffy writes early and often at his kitchen table, casting a wide net as to form and substance. His work has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including Schuylkill Valley Review,

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in