Food Depression Poems

In the depths of her soul, she's yearning for touch,
In a void of despair, where emotions are crushed.
Once her fortress, her solace, her knight,
Now distant,...

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Functionally depressed 
Got to work each day
Do what everyone wants you to do 
Say the things they want you to say 
Just to make it...

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Begins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction 
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break 
hard causing us to panic my spouse and...

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It’s winter in the year twenty-eighty-four
Hell has landed on every shore
Devilish eyes aglow as they rose to dominate
People now captive to a totalitarian state

Society is...

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Laughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming

I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats...

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Down in London 

Washed away in the gutters spent,
Like the vagrants and bums without a cent,
Everyone in a hurry, somewhere to go,
Someone to love them...

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I. How to create a character flaw 

ONE CAN ONLY BE TOLD

act humble
stay silent
dress pretty
don't frown

BEFORE WANTING TO BE

totally invisible
permanently mute
hallmark like
someone else

AND SO OFTEN...

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They say we struggle til we die,
If that's the case I don't want to fight to stay alive,
Feels like a crime,
Stealing money from our pockets...

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No feed
I cry
No compassion
I starve
No love
I am homeless
I grow weak
Darkness in my eyes
My body can sometimes be motionless
I get Dizzy
Drinking water is fizzy
Dirty and not...

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Breakfast is the most painful part of the day.

It’s sometimes different, but always tastes the same.

Time goes by, then lunch starts.

Lunch is always wilted and...

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She never got spoon-fed and started licking off the knives
But knives cut her tongue
Her home is in the white spaces but not the words
You claim...

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When I knew no healing elixir and no cure
I never wanted to give you hopes
Yet, I lied, beautifully lied, giving hopeless hopes
Promising everything will be...

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thank you to the ones who carried me here
the ones that became my parents when my parents couldn’t hear me
the ones who took in that...

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Trash talk myself in the mirror,
My fat roll is getting bigger.

Quick to judge others,
For my own druthers.

Can’t stand to see,
What is reflected back at me.

I...

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Losing a pet after seventeen years
Is like a member of the family
Such exhileration as they greet you
With their morning enthusiasm
Is it their craving for food
Are...

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