Second Guessing



The struggle that goes on in my head
Whether I’m up or in my bed
Makes life kind of hard.

Newton says that for every action
Comes an opposite and like reaction
Which makes life kind of hard.

It’s not so much the outside forces
But which argument my mind endorses
That makes life kind of hard.

For in my head, for all my choices
I hear the second-guessing voices
Which makes life kind of hard.

If only I could believe I’m right
Without my mind putting up a fight,
Life wouldn’t be so hard.

About this poem

A fun little ditty that fully expresses how I feel sometimes when indecision and flip-flopping makes life kind of hard.

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Written on February 18, 2022

Submitted by janet_1 on July 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme aab ccB ddb eeB ffb
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 510
Words 104
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Janet Muirhead hill

Janet Muirhead Hill is a novelist who occasionally writes poetry for fun and for self-expression. Her published books include the Miranda and Starlight series of horse stories for middle-grade readers and other fiction. more…

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  • RhymingVibes
    So true. All it takes is changing or perspective and being positive.
    LikeReply1 year ago

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