Metaphor Depression Poems

Aint Throwin my'self off no bridges
God made the Ocean for the fish

And at the risk of soundin' religious
Suicide wont be gettin' his wish

Sister Mercer, sister...

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I gaze into the eyes of oblivion, 
it stares back at me with contempt. 
None of us are budging a brow to blink, 
for our...

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Some days seems like some nights, A continuous battle, with an innumerable amount of fights. Endless hours pass, the night moon fades to the light...

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When day turns to night
 I have to pray with all my might

You tell me you love me 
This is where you want to be...

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Above and beyond
locked in a glazed tourniquet
of mindful disdains...

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Endurance upon the page
Edited with audacity
May these words persevere
To catch the right complacency

Written with courage
Erased with fierce endurance
May these words come to me
Fortified by my...

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It began by taking my heart
attacking my immunity
warming me up as hot as fever
leaving it broken in disunity.

It traveled on, to my mind
destroying on its...

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I take stock and revisit good ole days of yore
quite conscious undeclared state of war
prevails within body electric of troubadour
now seated at his Macbook Pro
today...

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Tansy Roekaerts
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Mirage

With eyes as parched as the desert I travel,
I thirst for my loss, yet do not unravel.
The...

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The nightfall preys on the bipolar mind:
     like a hunter hard on his prey, the nights
awaken a dysphoric mood; then grind
...

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In this bottle are most of my fears, some have gone and few will stay,
In this bottle are most of my tears, where i hide...

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When looking into the mind's mirror
All that's found is fear there

Peering into that dark place
Not recognizing the face

Lurking there's the daemon, the monster
Yet some still...

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I am ready

The time is drawing near
My body pulsing with fear

I've ordered my meal, I know it's my last
Suddenly the years in that box, have...

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They clipped my wings, yet I still fly
Thrown off a cliff to chase a lie
Now I fall through the clouds
A broken bird left to die

A...

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