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How to Measure Happiness

2/1/2022

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How do you measure happiness?
With a ruler or a scale to weigh it?
Is there a price or level of success?
Or your amount of online influence?

Is it what you have? Or what you do?
Or is it how your public image looks?
Are you keeping up? Do you need more?
Do your parents even like you anymore?

Why aren't you happy like everyone else?
Because if that's what happiness looks like
And if that's what they're trying to sell, then
I don't want a happiness that's superficial

Happiness doesn't need to be liked to be valid
You could finally discover your life's purpose
And still get less likes than someone else's
Picture of their dinner and a stupid caption

Social media cannot capture how good you are
So don't let the likes (or lack thereof) distort how
You perceive yourself or your self worth because
The truth is that happiness has also been distorted

@sabaitide
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A New Light in the Sky

2/1/2022

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I thought I knew
All the stars in
The night sky

Like the stickers
On my ceiling that
Glowed in the dark

Or like the map
In the sky when I
Was terribly lost


Like abstract ideas
That I have to 
Connect the dots

I thought I knew
All of the stars but
Now there's a new

Light in my skies
Looking out for me
And I wonder why

@sabaitide
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The Sky Hasn't Fallen Yet

1/1/2022

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The sky hasn’t fallen yet
And I wonder when that’ll be
When pigs fly? Or Jesus arrives?
Do we wait for Doomsday?
Or a sign of the end times?
Will aliens arrive? Or better yet,
When will they just tell us already!
Will the world end tomorrow?
When we pollute all the water?
Or when we're out of resources

Like all of the oil that'll be scarce?
What about all the toilet paper
I need to stock up on before
No one's allowed to go to
The grocery store no more
‘Cause that’s the new normal
We're headed towards, it's what
They’ve been conditioning us for
While Star Trek predicted this in
Glimpses of our 21st century doom
Way before I was even born
I mean, infectious diseases?
Quarantines and vaccines?
Human extinction by radiation
On season one of First Generation
My goodness, does more go wrong?
On this star-crossed planet we're on?

‘Cause there’s something going down
On planet earth right now that’s beyond
What we know about space and time
Like Star Trek predicted the end, alright
Not all of us will board the Enterprise

But for now, I can make it my mission
To at least try to finish all seven seasons
Of Star Trek while I'm still breathing

But what if I don’t make it to the end?
If you understand what I mean by it
But I shouldn’t even think like that
Because the sky hasn’t fallen yet and
The glass ceiling is still over my head
@sabaitide
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More Than This

12/1/2021

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When time will tell or come to pass
When life goes on what will last?
When trials test my faith I’ll ask

Does God have something better planned?

When hard times come it’s He who’ll bless
He makes creation from my mess
He loves me when I’m not my best

‘Cause God’s planned something more than this
@sabaitide
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Give the Gift of Shelter

12/1/2021

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It's that time of year again
To decorate our homes
To cook our family meals
To get our shopping done
And to give and receive gifts

But when you unwrap your box
Will you hope for toys or treats?
Or the trendiest material things
That you saw advertised on IG
On your personalized newsfeed?

We're more connected than ever
Why not use it for a good cause?
Because right now, somewhere
Around the world there is a family
In need of some disaster relief

Due to conflicts, climate change, and
Circumstances beyond our control 
And one day I hope that family will 
​Receive a gift like yours, and in it,
Will be shelter
@sabaitide
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Winter Never Fails

12/1/2021

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There's nothing quite like
A California winter
The kind of season that
Is as hot and cold as me

It can bring rain and fire
Or sunshine for miles
But regardless of all
​The possible surprises 

God never fails
To paint the sky everyday
What beauty to behold
And photos to capture

With skies of a spectrum
And oceans of reflection
That is why winter sunsets
In California are my favorite color
@sabaitide
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Not Under the Influence

10/1/2021

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This is a friendly reminder that I can’t read your mind
And that’s better said alive than from the other side
I don’t know how many folks I’ve made laugh or cry
And I don’t know who you are or how you feel inside


It would’ve been a shame if I didn’t have courage to write
If I remained too shy to express myself or open my mind
But to be candid, I’ve had a strange feeling for quite a while
‘Cause it’s been ominously quiet on my social media profile

I shouldn’t measure my worth by the amount of likes
Or views or comments or followers or the online hype
My notes are underwhelming and it's got me wondering
What’s the point of it ‘cause the illusion’s lost meaning

Am I actually censored or am I shadow banned?
A first world problem, but what’s up with that?
Maybe no one cares and I’m overthinking it ‘cause I’m
Not like the popular girls who have too much influence

If I never said anything and something bad happened to me

They all would’ve had too much fun rewriting my own story
So sad this girl didn’t know she was loved before she died
Too bad no one actually talked to her to ever explain why

I jumped right to the end where they all talk about my life
But still don’t care ‘cause it’d be written off as a suicide
I don’t even want to think like that but whatever happens
Life is short and they’ll make it about my vaccine status

But not being popular isn’t a reason to hurt yourself
Although I admit, it could wreck your mental health
I don’t write for attention or social media incentives
Even if you are real they won’t get what the point is

The status quo doesn’t have to be the status quo
I can free myself when I choose to be myself
So I won’t let them influence how I ought to be
Because I am enough and I just want to be me
@sabaitide
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DoomsDay

10/1/2021

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​I have accepted that I probably won’t make it to the end
A little melodramatic, but at least the sky hasn’t fallen yet
Then sometimes I wonder if we could be more than friends
But that is not a recurring thought I even want to have
While playing out every worst case scenario in my head

But deep down, I want a love that will last
Who will protect me and who has my back
Who will treat me right and hold my hand
And will reassure me that it’s not the end
Of the freaking world.. Or at least not yet

But I’m just a girl and this is all in my head
Mentally preparing for the end rather than
The possibility of actually falling in love again
@sabaitide
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No Matter

6/1/2021

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It don’t matter
What I think
Or say or do
What I like
Or share or don’t
I could post it
But I won’t

It don’t matter
What I see
Or I believe 
What I read 
Or I perceive
If I can’t take it
I can leave

Well it don’t matter
I don’t matter
It don’t matter
Anyway
No matter what 
I do or don’t
The world won’t
Ever change

I’m overwhelmed 
If you could tell me
Exactly what to say
To they, to WHO
And maybe you
That only you
Can change and 
That’s what matters

Yeah you matter
In a world
So big and small
And all at once
‘Cause you baby
Are like the world
Wondering
What it was

And just because 
You missed the cut
Don’t mean you’re
Not enough
No matter what
You matter and
We’ll figure
This one out

It don’t matter
How much money 
Or how many 
That you have
What matters is 
That you keep trying
To do the best 
You can

Beyond all our 
Attention spans
Just wonder
What it matters
And what matters
Is what’s happening
And what will happen 
Shortly after

While the stars
Are all out up there
Is something more
Grand than there is
And no matter 
How it happens
You can make 
The most of it

While the world turns
Only time will tell
The universe that
We all feel
As it unfolds
Just break the mold
From what you thought
That you’d once known

‘Cause the grand 
Unfolding of the 
Universe 
Will be told in 
Social media posts

And the story told
In hashtag mode
And other kinds
Of digi codes
Might not show
What matters though
Of what’s above
And so below

Don’t worry much
About it though
Even if you feel
You don’t
You matter and

You’re not alone
@sabaitide
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Lifted

6/1/2021

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I’m lifted, gifted
Never gonna miss this
Chance is tactics
Playing without practice
Questions, answers (“ances”)
Is Pluto a planet?
That’s just nonsense
Or it’s what your mom says
Now I’m still with it
Checking off my wish list
And I’m still lifted
Axis slightly tilted
Listen, learn it
Not what you thought
It was and it has
Taken off, lifted
@sabaitide
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