Depression Black African American Poems

Beautiful Blue Butterfly 

In life we go through changes and we all start out as an egg, later down the line we grown into a...

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Have I really been working on myself or did I just change from my work clothes to something more comfortable
Is this depression or is it...

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I am shackled to my front door 
My definition of freedom is foregin 
I am cold 

Cold is my dying dreamer
Cold is my burning rage
Cold...

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Once again I find myself at the whim of these storms.
From peak to valley, to peak again.
I’m spent. 
They take my energy, my focus &...

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Leave me alone
Leave me alone
I am waiting to go home
Everyone's true colors have been shown
Everyone's level, I've outgrown
Now you get paid to be a clone
White...

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A gorgeously dressed “tears” in unknown fears.
How dare you abseil my cheek-beards
in horror of cheers my rictus is smothered to share?
It is clear to glare...

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I'm tired of barely surviving
It shouldn't be this hard to want to live
My thoughts have been killing me slowly since I was twelve 
And they...

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I look through a Window, crystal clear
I can see the beauty so far yet so near
Upon looking out, I can see my destiny 
But really...

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What Love commands the train fulfills, 

The six thirty bounds to Coney Island 

Where the green Ubers awaits the passengers 

Morning greetings, (Urdu) of few...

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I remember the land,  

I remember its people,  

They ways, the stupidity of 

Their mentality, I never came 

To heard of this term...

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Too tired to think
Too tired to talk
Too tired to take 
Even a walk

Too tired I say 
Perchance I must fall
Too tired to take
Even a ...

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ONLY TWO COLOURS EXIST IN THIS WORLD 
ONLY TWO COLOURS OF SEPARATION EXIST 
THEY SEPARATED ME FROM YOU 
THEY CAUSED A STIR BETWEEN THE TWO...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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How dare you show up 
unannounced
Changing the way I live
my best life
Coming all up and thru here
confining me inside the prison
of my own insanity
I want...

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He knew he would never find
another woman who was as smart
and as stupid as me
That was his reason
for hanging on to me for dear life
Keeping...

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