Critique my poem, honestly.?

Question

I'm new to this stuff, please critique this and help me out. Doing this because it's supposed to be therapeutic. Here we go.

A mind shot

So tired and beat

Time to let go

Just hope you forgot

Do I over analyze and contemplate

Should I be confused

Looking for something to compensate

For this lack of being

Sounds like misery

Feels like complacency

How much is it worth

All this free agency

I hear the music

But my senses defy me

It’s time to use it

Could be my last chance

If it were a light switch

I’d hold it down til death

Thought I’d be ok

Just take a breath

Answer 1

I agree if you have to explain poetry it looses it's meaning.  Never explain it.  Just let it sit there.  If they don't get it, who cares.  50 years from now an English teacher will explain what you meant to say.  

It has a certain flow I like.  Its about confusion maybe, exhausted with a process, I can only assume the process is Therapy based on the brief comment.  

It is typical, ordinary, but not bad.  I like the 2nd "stanza".  I think that one says the most.  "I like the line Sounds like misery, Feels like complacency".  The last line of that stanza suffers from something, doesn't feel right.  But maybe that has a specific meaning to you, so it doesn't mean it should be changed.  But if it has no meaning to you I would evaluate the thought you are trying to convey and come up this another way of saying it.  

The last line is good, I feel like the poem is completed, I am not sure that the last stanza does it for me as a whole.  It seems like there is something there.  

Nice work.  What do you think about it?  Do you think that it has the impact you were after?  

Answer 2

I read it three times and I still have no idea what it means.  If you have to explain poetry, it really looses it's power.

Answer 3

i enjoy it. i am always on here trying to find original, unique stuff rather than the same old emo nonsense. why do people assume that poems have to be "deep" and emotional? because when they try to sound that way, they end up sounding cliche and tacky. but i like yours. it's like a breathe of fresh air.