Romance Depression Poems

My heart seems to break every day 
and
little by little by little
it's chipping away.
The pain that I feel,
I pretend it's not real,
but
little by little by...

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I bathe in the tears of your frailty.
Love has never seemed so distant as when two people are content with unhappiness.
Society assigns romance with an...

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My initials are M F, of course, given by my parents. I don't use nicknames in any of my writings.

Maiden’s flimsy faking made mystique meaningless...

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lavender ribbons 
from your hair 
lay against 
the pages
I love to read
so much
and as I turned 
the pages
the smell 
of your hair
makes me 
love the...

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Bricks through windshields,
Darts through hanging pictures of me 
And cracks in the photos, framed on the shelf 
But they're not there physically
My trust makes a...

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Everything I could ever want
In sight

Beauty more potent than gods
A voice that sings to me 
A story of which 
I want to be a part...

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My love, I question if I still deserve that name,
Aware of the depths of my wrong, consumed by shame.
I comprehend the magnitude of the pain...

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The Waves

We walk along the shore together. 
We stop, and look out upon the sea. 
Words come to the surface, 
and sink again, 
unspoken. 

You...

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Apology to the missus at nighttime...
first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process
of leaving a telephone message
for our eldest...

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Faith (in the garden)

The bright yellow faces
of the sunflowers look right into the sky. 
They peer up and know they are smiled upon. 
We should...

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SHATTERED ME!

Scintillating splendor of stars
Stimulated me, gazing by the window,
Hugging the bars, feeling the freshness
My mind just a wanderlust!

Far away from my window
Under the boughs,...

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These... 

These are the days my friend, 
that we thought would never come. 
They are beautiful beyond belief, 
and they are moving fast. 
The seconds...

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I buy a lot of plastic flowers 
I can’t keep real ones alive
When I need to feed it I forget it exists
And pretty soon it...

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Depression vol 13 ~ Loveless

How dull I feel, writing of the same 
eternal misery like all those before me;
All my fellow poets, or the regretful...

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The forces of self destruction wax in their strength.
Virus of creation that goes to every length
to snuff out the dancing lights coloring our soul,
making soft...

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