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hat feels good to me</p><p id="61dd">You just stare back at me Cold as a breeze blowing through a tundra with an ice storm at its back You are cryogenic I am apoplectic because you won’t just Get out of my way</p><p id="5052">Move Move Every time I move you move so I can’t escape you You follow me like a shadow Always draping darkness on top of my sunshine Leaving me shaded and melancholic and unable to get away</p><p id="5e80">So can’t you just do it? Get out of my way So I can stand tall chest out mind clear and walk back into my own life The same one I left still because I couldn’t escape you</p><p id="a4da">Get out of my way Once and for all I don’t need your constant companionship and judgment I can do that to myself and feel shame just the same without you in my way</p><p id="2a75">Although now that I look at you really look at you I realize you aren’t in my way Bec

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ause you are me and I am you I am standing in my way I am the barricade not allowing myself to pass not allowing myself to hope of a future without you So, today I will get out of my own way You aren’t there anymore</p><p id="6e3d">© <a href="undefined">Jonathan Greene</a> 2019</p><p id="cabb">If you liked this, I put all of my poems in one place:</p><div id="4889" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/all-of-my-poems-3f60ceba2b8"> <div> <div> <h2>All Of My Poems</h2> <div><h3>In One Place</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*TPzdTvy6h3GQRX7A)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Get Out Of My Way

A Poem

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You are in my way A barricade to my future Holding me back day after day With your prolonged procrastination It would really help me if you just moved and cleared my path so I could walk again free from your constraint

It’s not just your body but your mind that lives inside of my mind Constantly telling me that my choices are not correct As if you know what I need and what is right and wrong and what feels good to me when I need something that feels good to me

You just stare back at me Cold as a breeze blowing through a tundra with an ice storm at its back You are cryogenic I am apoplectic because you won’t just Get out of my way

Move Move Every time I move you move so I can’t escape you You follow me like a shadow Always draping darkness on top of my sunshine Leaving me shaded and melancholic and unable to get away

So can’t you just do it? Get out of my way So I can stand tall chest out mind clear and walk back into my own life The same one I left still because I couldn’t escape you

Get out of my way Once and for all I don’t need your constant companionship and judgment I can do that to myself and feel shame just the same without you in my way

Although now that I look at you really look at you I realize you aren’t in my way Because you are me and I am you I am standing in my way I am the barricade not allowing myself to pass not allowing myself to hope of a future without you So, today I will get out of my own way You aren’t there anymore

© Jonathan Greene 2019

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