How does it feel when you’re so pressured to do something, because you know that a lot of people are counting on you…and that everything seems to be at stake?
That must be heavy, no? Well, with all the demands that we have to meet as graduating students…I’m having exactly the same feeling. And being a person who loves to channel his thoughts into writing, I managed to come up with this free verse poem to at least serve as an outlet to release this very, veeeeeeery heavy feeling.
Made the framework two days ago in just five minutes, and have since tweaked it a little from time to time, whenever I felt like doing so. I then got tired of tweaking it, so here’s the unfinished product now: “In The Open Field“, by yours truly.
Looking down from above,
I can see the open field;
the grounds where I play;
the world where I came from;
and the life I chose to live.
I can feel the pressures rising, and down
from this pedestal’s my only choice.
Focus, must go on with the game.
All eyes are cast upon me,
watching, following my every move.
Everything’s at stake.
Yes, everything’s at stake.
The ego is challenged.
Yes, the ego is challenged.
Do everything it takes, I should.
This is my defining moment.
I have to prove my worth.
I just know that I have to…
in the open field,
in the open field.
/02.20.09
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oohh i see.
u know i have that kind of pressure too. but i dont let it cross my mind. but you know the pressure to deal with time is ung d ko kaya. i have lots of papers due this week which i havent started due to major revisions sa thesis. haay. but then im still in my time sched e, so mukhang kaya naman.
mapepressure ka talaga to do something with ur life after graduation. anu na? panu na?
sagot ko? aba, malay ko! well cross that bridge pag andun na. haay
Well Lau, as much as I don’t want to, may mga panahon talaga that it gets all in your head. Alam mo yun? ‘Pag kaliwa’t kanan naririnig mong namumutawi sa bibig ng mga tao sa paligid mo yung tungkol sa ganung mga bagay, hindi mo ba naman maiisip yun? Haha! Ayan, kaya nga inilabas ko nalang yung nararamdaman ko sa pamamagitan ng tulang yan. At least, in one way or another, I can get some of it off my head and off my chest.
Hope we can all keep up with the pressures of our lives. Good luck sa ating lahat! God bless.
napaka landi ng tula mo. hhahahahahaha! Nice pic mon.. nagmana ka tlaga sken..:D
Why did you find it “malandi”? I can’t see anything “malandi” about it. Naka-relate ka lang siguro!!! Wahahaha. Bleh.
“god is your strength! you will not fail!”
i have this posted on my wall so that i’ll always be reminded that He is always there to lighten up my burden.
He is there for you, too! kaya mo yan, mon! KAYA NYO YAN NI GOD!
Tama, tama! Thanks Avon.
sureness!
all the best, raymond.
I used to do this a lot, write poems and stories when under pressure for a deadline or examination
I see. It really helps rub off some of the tension and the burden, no? Heheh. Thanks Ma’am!
actually I have the same feeling after I graduated as a nurse last year.. surely because they think you are the answer to their dreams.. It’s a big deal really.. yet, that’s why you studied.. because you want them to be proud!
A-men! Thanks for the visit.
[...] So why “The Cleansing Process”? Well, I came up with the title during that time when I was feeling really bad about something–”depressed” would have to be the right term. I was depressed about having to think of a lot of pressures, mostly from the current demands that I needed to meet, thoughts about the coming graduation (and the chances of not being able to march this April), and thinking about how life would be after graduation. (Read: In The Open Field) [...]