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Anxiety Depression Poems

These Anxiety Depression poems are examples of Depression poems about Anxiety. These are the best examples of Depression Anxiety poems written by international poets.


THE TOMB OF MIRRORS
There’s this voice that echoes inside of me,in the pit of my soul
He has long sharp nails, with which he tears down the walls of...

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Categories: depression, anxiety, bereavement, child abuse,



Broken Girl
Alcohol to numb the pains.  
Cigarettes to taste something other than hate.  
Sex to escape the constant loud voices in my head. ...

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Categories: anxiety, childhood, depression, emotions,

Divorce
Do you remember how it felt? 
Do you know what it feels like to feel worthless, not enough, to question love? 
Do you remember not...

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Categories: anxiety, childhood, depression, divorce,

Cancer
Cancer, a six-letter word that doesn’t mean much to most people. 
Then the word suddenly has more power than a shot to the chest. 
You...

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Categories: depression, anxiety, cancer, care, deep,

Premium Member Standing in Line during the holidays
When the Language Merge**

I walked into Bobby Department Store and yelled, “Where are the Jamaicans and Barbadians?” This might sound a little strange to most...

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Categories: depression, allusion, america, anxiety, appreciation,



Premium Member The human sanatorium
I’m caught between lights and shadows 
By a demon that has settled in my mind 
And locked me in a somber prison 
While my heart...

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Categories: anxiety, beautiful, care, depression,

New Beginnings
(April 7, 2025)

To new beginnings,
A moment in time where we have an opening to try and start anew
Every soul has dealt with yearning for a...

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Categories: anxiety, blessing, courage, depression,

godless hymn

I wasn’t born — I was expelled,
From choking smoke and screams I yelled.
No breath of grace, no holy light,
Just claws and fire in endless night.

No...

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Categories: depression, anger, angst, anxiety, dark,

The White Paper
Stuck between the lines,
 The only place where I don't get detained by all the crimes.
 Silent sins, where everything begins,
 The knife that cuts...

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© Issey Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression,

In a Coat of Pain
I’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...

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Categories: depression, anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,

The Weight of Tomorrow
I 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...

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Categories: depression, 12th grade, age, anger,

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...

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Categories: depression, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,

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...

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Categories: depression, abuse, anxiety,

The forgotten killer
Hopelessness 
When your body and mind are disconnected 
When your falling in a sea of darkness and accept it 
When the silence is loud you...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, discrimination, mental

Premium Member a love poem to my recovery
no 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...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, anxiety, depression, mental


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