Best Depressionnight Poems
Death
Words rip through the night sky
They conspire to tear a hole through reality
A reality created in your eyes
Taped tightly to your mouth is a bill of lies
That you have yet to unroll
And it's constricting your ability to breathe
Like a dying bumble bee, your stinger is useless
And as such your threats often fall flat
As flat as the heart buried deep in the ground
Your eyes cause lightning flashes in my mirror
And the sparks cause my hair to stand on end
It's time I took the scissors and shredded your beliefs
So many times I have been expected to bow to you
To take a bow has been the song of my entire life
Faltering to the commands of the many Gods and Goddesses
And now here I stand with a green belt of insanity
Ready to beat the lackluster starlight from your eyes
Ready to watch them flicker and then slowly die
Your words ripped through my night sky
They conspired to tear a hole through my reality
A reality I created in your eyes
I taped a bill of lies tightly to your mouth
One that I have yet to unroll
And it's constricting my ability to breathe
I justify the reasons for my unintended assassination
With the cookie crumbs that litter the far reaches of space
Filtered through memories of a lifetime of torment
It will not be long now before your statue explodes
Sending shards flying over the entirety of life's greatest gift
This gift is what you unwrapped- Death
And now with a stick of dynomite I give you one last smile
One last smile to fill the confines of your prison cell mind
Which has grown frail and decrepit
Tears filter through my emotional machine belt
And slowly fall into a wasteland where they cease to exist
I turn and the butterflies erupt from your heart
The explosion blinds my eyes briefly
And yet I feel more pure than I ever did before
Death is the gift I give to you
If you would only look out,
you would see the star-studded sky and a
swooning sickle moon, and down below
a fleet of quiet snails sailing gently over
lawns scented with newly cut grass.
You might glimpse the ugly awkward
gait of a dishevelled fox, trotting across
a road that had lost its cars by midnight
to the garages of suburbia; and perhaps
spot a motionless hedgehog sleeping
soundly beneath its mattress of bristles.
If you would just open up your ears
to the night outside, you might hear
the howling owl in the primary school wood, and
the on-the-hour Swiss cuckoo-clock over
at Number Eight crying out, absurdly, for urgency,
through an opened window.
You would hear cats wauling
and hear the swish of bats in the thick
dark air, hear the wind softly turning the
leaves of trees in search of only the wind
knows what, and perhaps hear the tide,
which sighs through the night from far
away to someone, somewhere.
But you won’t. You are lost in the night
within, that deepest darkness where no
stars shine, no moon lies recumbent,
a birdless night shunned by animals, too,
a night without roads, without lamps,
a nightless night on the edge of death.
When the weekend comes it starts with one drink
Half into the night I cling to a sink
A surfacing of weakness I quickly wash down
With pepper flakes of gold smoothed over with Crown
Why do I choose this reward for the week
To hide in a bottle and drown in a drink
But the night far from done when I refill my cup
I notice a spark as someone lights up
Another evil god to take me away
To a twisted heaven for this night to stay
The smoke through my mouth I feel in my toes
Ran up to my brain and out through my nose
I walk through my hall miles to bed
To lay down this body and sleep like I'm dead
I notice a book that sat on the floor
A book that I read when I only four
Beautiful and sweet so precious to me
A story of man so old and the sea
I wanted to cry as I was ashamed
I've let this book down and I am to blame
Oh Ernest I'm sorry for I do not know
Where I have gone with nothing to show
I clung to the book and asleep I fell
To dream about lions and stories to tell
Day by day i drain my life away, night by night i hold my pillow tight.
you were my everything
my stars in the beautiful night sky
my sunrise in the gorgeous morning
now there's nothing but,
darkness late in the night
and dark gray clouds in the early morning
you are the reason for my smiles in the day
and my tears every night
now all i have to say is good-bye
When Darkness comes...
Something not seen in day comes to light...
What I fear in day...
Disappears when Darkness comes...
At night here your fears fade away...
I don`t understand why I feel this...
Words flow and emotions grow...
When I write in the night...
In the night I feel sad and happy...
Mistakes will cme and go...
But something I will not soon forget...
Is that at night I feel two great things...
Sadness and ever growing joy...
Every single night, you layed right next to me.
Every other night, you made sweet love to me.
Every three nights you said you loved me.
Every week you called to see how I was.
Every other date, you didn't show up.
Every time we kissed, you forced yourself on me.
Every time you said you loved me,you werent serious anymore.
Every single night a body was next to you.
Every single night, you made love to her.
Every single night you said you Loved her.
Every single night you called her.
When You told her you loved her, you werent serious.
Everytime you kissed her, a spark lit.
Every time you go to sleep, she's in your mind.
Every single night your in my memory.
Every single night I have a heartache.
Every single night, I hate you more.
Every single nght I cry, because it still hurs..
Every single night, you layed right next to me.
Every other night, you made sweet love to me.
Every three nights you said you loved me.
Every week you called to see how I was.
Every other date, you didn't show up.
Every time we kissed, you forced yourself on me.
Every time you said you loved me,you werent serious anymore.
Every single night a body was next to you.
Every single night, you made love to her.
Every single night you said you Loved her.
Every single night you called her.
When You told her you loved her, you werent serious.
Everytime you kissed her, a spark lit.
Every time you go to sleep, she's in your mind.
Every single night your in my memory.
Every single night I have a heartache.
Every single night, I hate you more.
Every single nght I cry, because it still hurs..
The sun has gone, the moon looks down
Casting pale shadows on the ground
And I sit silent, unable to sleep,
That pale face looking onto salty cheeks
All alone, with the host of fears
No one else can see these tears
That come screaming from my eyes
The silent stream that springs from lies
Lies that my ragged heart holds dear,
Spun from doubt, self hate and fear
Their silken pain slides through my head
At night when comfort stays unsaid
This night is no exception from the rest
And rest is missing in its place a test
Testing my resolve to carry on;
To bear this heartache and then move on.
But it’s hard to move when chained to doubt,
Shackled so long I’ve lost the will to shout
For help. Help that I thought wouldn’t come
But here comes the dawn, up comes the sun
I take a breath; air fills my chest
I walk to the sink and do my best
To wipe away the tears that replaced sleep
But water only ever cleans skin deep
I won’t hold on, I can’t let go
I want to break this chain of woe
And after all these wraith like weeks
To finally be rid of salty cheeks.
OBLIVION
Your head is dead a chamber vast and void
and nothing's what you think on anymore
forgotten are all things you once enjoyed
and are replaced by life; the constant bore
your brain's been drained you sit alone and stare
all hope's run out, your heart is solid stone
from night to day and day to night it's there
the wish to be forgotten and alone.
You think and sink into oblivion
not caring if you fade into the sky,
once innocent, your life's become your sin
and no one knows where you have gone to die.
Hallucinating for one friend who'll stay,
You see a face, then watch it fade away.
The lonely night has been long and dark.
The absence of light make the surroundings stark.
I don’t know what to do when I cannot sleep.
There are fallacies about counting sheep.
I thought I would just lie alone in my bed.
Sounds all around me infiltrate my ears to my head.
I try to figure out what they may be.
Is it the crickets calling which I cannot see?
I hear what sounds like cars going down the road.
They burden my mind with a heavy load.
I know it’s dark and I cannot see.
There are so many other sounds I hear around me.
When lying in the dark, your mind may play tricks on you.
Sometimes you cannot discern the false from the true.
If you listen long enough, they may drive you insane.
You’ll wonder why you are in this situation so inane.
That is just your mind playing tricks on you.
On a night you can’t sleep, what will you do?
Inspired by another soup member's work.