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Depressing Poems - Poems about Depressing

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Crazy Eyes
It's been four years since I submitted my last poem, I was only one year into my addiction to methamphetamine. I'm currently five years in and boy oh boy do I have some perspective to...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, drug, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
deep winter
i don't think i deserve a second chance you could pull away at my string unravel me, make me dance and that would be too much for this stasis of mine frozen in different snowflakes of time each bearing memories,...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Other



UNWRITTEN REBEL
In realms of ink and paper, I once roamed, A character lost, in stories I'd been loaned. But as I tread the paths, both dark and grand, I feel the sting of fate, a crueler hand. Every laugh, every...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, absence, anxiety, betrayal, deep,
Form: Rhyme
UNCLAIMED ECHOES
In the echoes of your whispers, I heard the words you spoke, "I wish to be the last," a promise gently broke. She, the canvas of your dreams, painted in hues divine, A masterpiece of...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, depression,
Form: Free verse
Suffer
Sometimes I look at others And wonder How they can thrive While I suffer...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, cry, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse



Night in a city of artificial light
Breathing in the luminous vapor that tastes like vanilla While looking at illuminating our neon skyline Since the moon and stars are veiled with the aluminium ceilings Pastel rain that tastes of iron drips down from the blank...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, future, imagery, rose, science
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shots Fired
"Pop! Pop! Pop!" goes a squeezed Desert Eagle. Two innocent bodies drop; funeral to be held for one. Fleeing block party crew scatter like startled lemmings. A drive-by shooting; blood curdling screams follow....Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, america, imagery, society, truth,
Form: Verse
Getting Bad Again
We have all noticed that things are getting bad again, I know things will get better, but I don't know when. While clutching at my arm As my blood transfused I first pressed the alarm Struggling to find the door...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, anxiety, color, dark, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
My War
My War Tick tick tick My brain is always on My thoughts never quick Sometimes I wonder if I'm my own pawn In a game that my very own brain has drawn My brain has turned on my heart That...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, anxiety, blue, death, depression,
Form: Quintain (English)
Left To Fry
I was left to fry, Left to try, And left to die alone. All in a hope, That I was unimportant and unsuspecting. Yet I can see through the black cloak of blame and lies. I will not be left to...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, deep, depression, sad,
Form: Free verse
Depressing Times
Oh thwacks of pain, You made slightest of my optimism go vain! Swirls, oh I feel momentary, Made my actions in a longer run to be involuntary!...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, dark, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Down To My Core
I was in all the spotlight, i had all i had dreamed of, but as every man i fell to greed, i wanted more, what is more, more is the money, more is the fame,...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, 7th grade, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Heart
Wounded Heart. . Sore deep wounds left from childhood Never healed and still cause much pain Never felt loved or wanted Felt like an abandoned puppy someone had discarded Left out in the cold wind and rain . Walking like a leper in...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, angst, anxiety, childhood, depression,
Form: Free verse
Decisions
You can start off with a simple shot, Or slice open your wrist, avoiding a clot. You allow dehydration, Or let in starvation. You could try drowning, Or a classic hanging… Electrocution is an option, But so is ingesting a toxin. You might...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Things We Do See Are So Depressing
when I will turn on TV things are depressing in this day and age Jim Horn...Read the rest...
Categories: depressing, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

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