a hazy perspective and the need for clarityI have no sense of time,
the pride from my accomplishments
is as null as the concept of permanence,
besides the fog —
seeping into my mind
as deep as the proverbial soul within me.
in the mist of what is left of myself,
the only depth i can catch...
Continue reading...
Categories:
confusion, dark, depression, mental
Form: Free verse
Life AloneAlone I walk along the street
that special someone I desperately seek
That person to come and make me smile
Yet I walk alone on my second mile
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme
Body Hate
A stranger lives beneath my skin,
A twisted thing, a grinning sin.
It pulls and prods, it makes me sick,
Another bite, another trick.
The porcelain mocks my face,
A painted lie, a shameful space.
I heave and choke, a bitter tide,
Trying to wash the hate inside.
Each inch I pinch, each bone I crave,
A hollow shell inside this grave.
Duct tape binds,...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, 10th grade, abuse, body,
Form: Rhyme
Choked Bloom
The girl weeps a bruised and bitter rain,
A childhood choked, a garden grown in pain.
My laughter, brittle glass, it cracks and breaks,
Beneath the weight of unforgiving stakes.
They built a fortress, walls of rigid stone,
And left my heart a barren, windswept zone.
No lover's hand to soothe, no gentle gaze,
Just scornful whispers in a hateful maze.
Each hallway...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, 10th grade, abuse, cry,
Form: Rhyme
In a Coat of PainI’ve knocked on every door of medicine men—
doors painted with hope.
Swallowed pills of every size and colour.
Been told,
“This one never fails.”
Another promise—
fulfilled only in disappointment.
The body that once felt mine
now feels like a stranger’s—
still wearing my name tag.
I sleep early,
trying to rinse myself from pain,
but wake up
still dressed in it.
The coat I wear?
Pain-stitched—
by a tailor...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,
Form: Spoken Word
Theater Of lifeTheater Of Life
We met as strangers stranded in the park,
Lonely as the night -
Wandering in wonder, will the train surface?
1:35am she thought to provide me warmth
Open arms, I drowned beneath her chest.
We sang, imitating the birds in the far away forest,
The wind sang along in uniformity, blended we thought!
Utopia was now newly found home,...
Continue reading...
Categories:
change, depression, fantasy, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of TomorrowI sit alone beneath the sky,
Uncle, thinking of your last goodbye,
The world feels heavy, dreams unclear,
With every step, I carry fear.
Graduation looms - so close, so wide,
But doubt and worry walk beside.
You always knew just what to say…
I wish you could be here today...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, 12th grade, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Mixed EmotionsMixed Emotions
Relaxation, serenity of being alone
Happiness, like a dog with a bone
Shoes off, soft grass on your feet
Dreams of the one you long to meet
Lay in the grass, look at the sky
Life is short, you begin to cry
Friends pass away, they leave too soon
You are now alone to stare at the moon
Grassy meadows, rolling clouds
Whispering...
Continue reading...
Categories:
confusion, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Death to Life in HimDeath is to be my great enemy
For in living I am to be
The friend of life, and put to death
That force that longs to steal my breath—
Away! — away that hallowed hollow grave
My ally, the stone that bears my name
The one, oh would that I could fill
That hole, that bowl of earth
To swallow me down...
Continue reading...
Categories:
christian, depression, love, mental
Form: Free verse
Winter WithersWinter withers
…… its way into the woods
and waits….and wonders….and watches
until…. No-one is looking.
Suddenly, an ally boorishly introduces itself,
an iced-sliced wind to quiver-shiver
the woods’ most tender saplings;
to shudder the aged evergreens
with sharpened, encrusted crystals
sandpapering the toughest, roughest bark.
Weather warning complete,
Winter then crunches forward,
cold shouldering its way through the night
to finally rest against a solitary,...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, nature, winter,
Form: Free verse
what more can be taken
What More Can Be Taken
I came from a house where love never stayed,
Where fists did the talking and kindness decayed.
Where silence was safer than saying a word,
And a child’s small heartbreak was never once heard.
I ran to the bottle, to smoke and to fire,
Chased numbness like peace, sank deep in the vile.
Got locked in a...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
house of grief
I dwelt within a house of shade,
By silent hand and sorrow made.
Each brick I laid with trembling care—
Of shame, of guilt, of cold despair.
No hearth did warm, no lamp did gleam,
But dimness thick as haunted dream.
No welcome waits behind the door,
Only the hush of evermore.
The days are long, yet never bright,
And stretch like wounds into...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Its time to make a DecisionA list of tasks to accomplish before I embrace love again:
I envision my mind wandering through expansive fields where patches of grass lie brown. A single wildflower stands out among the scattered pebbles beneath my feet. Memories linger, taunting me alongside the bare trees with their bent trunks. A cool breeze brushes against my face;...
Continue reading...
Categories:
depression, allusion, anger, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The forgotten killerHopelessness
When your body and mind are disconnected
When your falling in a sea of darkness and accept it
When the silence is loud you can hear your heartbeat
It's the feeling of a deep pit
In your stomach
All the contents of your stomach being Consumed by it
Replaced by the feeling of sickness
Leaving a...
Continue reading...
Categories:
anxiety, depression, discrimination, mental
Form: Free verse
a love poem to my recoveryno i wouldn't die for you.
i wouldn't,
and i'm not sorry.
i spent too long hiding in the shadows,
waiting
lurking
wanting
and hoping
that they'd see that I would have.
in an instant,
i would have.
a bullet, a train, a grenade, a pile of pills.
i would've taken any of them
for anyone.
but instead,
life shot me with an arrow.
life gave me you.
this...
Continue reading...
Categories:
angst, anxiety, depression, mental
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Depression Poems
Read wonderful depression poetry on the following sub-topics:
anxiety, clinical, cope with, dark, deep, hope, inspirational, loneliness, love, metaphor, sad, slam, overcoming, rhyme
and more.
Definition | What is Depression in Poetry?
Poems Related to Depression
distress, downheartedness, unhappiness, desperation, bummer, melancholy, heavyheartedness, heaviness of heart, bottom out, hard times, rainy days,