More Stressed Out Than Me. I Never Thought I’d Know Such a Person.
Changing moods but mostly in an uneasy state.
Hyper with nothing but my own thoughts, which keep racing.
Is this the state that God intended for me?
I surely hope not. I wouldn’t want this feeling for anyone else.
Recently, I met this guy, a new friend,
who is more stressed out than me.
How can that be you ask? I too was surprised.
Should he tell his parents today,
or should he keep waiting and holding off
about what has been nagging at him for weeks now.
He needs to tell someone who can be of more help than me
or that nagging feeling will never go away.
Apparently, sharing with me is really not helping him.
He is in return not helping my stress.
Actually probably giving me stress.
But what is a friend to do?
It’s hard to watch someone whom you know is in pain and do nothing.
Wait, he probably does not even realize that he is in pain.
What can you do when someone only lets you in
as far as they will allow.
They let you into only half of their life, only into half of their true feelings
and only half is what they want you to be a part of.
Can’t go on like this, It’s affecting him too badly.
Just living everyday is a struggle, is a damn struggle.
Where does he turn to for help?
He keeps driving around for hours and hours never really getting anywhere, knowing that if he felt more comfortable with himself
and the world around him, he might be able to survive.
He shakes and so do I. He does not know where to go,
so he goes everywhere hoping to find something
and not knowing exactly what that something is after all.
Does anyone love me? Does anyone care?
He calls out to certain people but only to be using them in the end. Hopefully he realizes the selfishness behind that.
I tell him all about my stress.
How I can totally relate, but he is barely listening.
He is too caught up in his own head and in his own thoughts.
Is this how a true friend acts?
Can I help him to overcome what he is feeling
or does he really want me to do nothing for him anyway.
Life seems unfair that people like him and me should go through this bad state, which has begun to take over our lives.
When will we be able to say we are okay?
When will our bodies finally relax?
I gave him my time but that was not enough for him.
Something more was needed.
Something more is needed for me too.
But when will enough be enough?
Will we ever answer these questions
or will they forever just be questions?
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Waris • Dec 7, 2012 at 11:33 am
Review by Lee Gaiteri for Rating: After lately haierng plenty of songs I like that don’t have a CD full of similarly good stuff to back them up, I was pleased to finally find a must-buy when I was impressed by I Kissed a Girl on the radio. Katy’s CD is exactly the kind of debut I like, showing off a range of song styles but still fitting firmly within the pop genre. I’ll begin by debunking two criticisms I’ve heard: The CD is supposedly too slickly produced, and some say she tries to be edgy without going far enough. Such cookie-cutter criticisms should be saved for cookie-cutter groups. Claims of overproduction ring false when you can occasionally hear vocal slips that add humanity, and as for edginess I think one of the things that pleases me most about this CD is that Katy is very good at pulling off brash and irreverent flair without being obnoxious. I wish I could say the same of a lot of other acts.Pop is Katy’s strong suit but her songs mostly resist pigeon-holing past that point. Not a single song fits the bubblegum Disney mold, another bogus criticism I’ve seen aimed her way. I Kissed a Girl is almost bouncy rock, unlike anything else I’ve heard on the radio. The title track, Waking Up in Vegas , and Self-Inflicted are the closest to classic pop that she gets; the latter two are among the best tracks on the CD. Hot n Cold is another mold-breaker though, reminding me very much of an early ’80s sound with a more modern twist to some of the vocals. And I would be remiss not to mention Ur So Gay , easily the most playful song on the album but one I would hardly classify as pop; haierng only this single would give anyone a very distorted picture of Katy’s repertoire because it’s little like any of her other songs musically, but among the rest it doesn’t feel out of place.While most of the rest of the CD is likable pop, there are a few slower ballads like I’m Still Breathing , Lost , and Thinking of You . Each of these is different in some way, but Thinking of You has the strongest melody and complements that with beautiful vocals. Two days after first playing the CD, this song found its way back into my head and I was pleased to remember it so well.Katy Perry is a breath of fresh air in an industry that seems to like churning out one-hit wonders with boring CDs, one-style-fits-all vocalists who have no ability to mix it up, or in-your-face yet unoriginal attitude. I like her style, range, and voice, and she manages through it all to be boisterous but not annoying. For me this is a winner.
Kelly Sisco • Jan 24, 2013 at 10:36 pm
THIS IS THE AUTHOR OF THE POEM WRITING THIS REPLAY BACK. I LIKED YOUR KATY PERRY REVIEW BUT WHAT DOES YOUR COMMENT HAVE TO DO WITH MY POEM? I LOOKED AT YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND YOU LIVE IN INDIA AND THIS IS A WEBSITE FOR A COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN NEW YORK SO I AM NOT SURE WHY YOU POSTED YOUR COMMENT UNDER MY POEM. GOOD COMMENT THOUGH AND I LIKE KATY PERRY AS WELL BUT I THINK YOU TYPED YOUR REVIEW ON MY PAGE BY MISTAKE.