"An Overview of Life" and "Everyday" - Two Poems, by Rosed Serrano

An Overview of Life

Life is like a band-aid: quick, painful and easy
The days will accumulate before we ever have the chance to look back at them
The stories all told  are in short an abundance of hurt ,misery and failure
And the path clears up with every step we take forward
But if anyone's like me:
You worry about the stamp you make in this world before it makes its route


Everyday

Everyday we walk around obsessed to know what others think of us
We look over the shoulders of others to regulate what they're doing
We complain constantly about those things we don't have, ignoring the
things we do
We are a breathing victim that everyone is out to get
We look at the person next to us, envying what they have and what we lack
We wait for others to give us a pat-on-the back although we are fully
capable of reaching our arm over
We are our biggest disappointment
We paint a pretty picture to display while in reality we lug the ugly
We judge ourselves
Put ourselves at a pedestal no leap will land
We categorize others, placing them into organized groups with sticky labels
We sit and scrutinize  others embracing their flaws and lessening their beauty
We compare our achievement against others, making our victories failures
We drown ourselves in trends impossible to catch up with
We make everyday a race, a competition that we won yesterday, will win
in the future, but can't ever achieve now