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Pain Drowning Poems

These Pain Drowning poems are examples of Drowning poems about Pain. These are the best examples of Drowning Pain poems written by international poets.

Drowning

I’m drowning.
I’m getting pulled under.

I can feel the water slowly filling my lungs
as I scream for help,
but that scream is muffled by the crashing waves,
crashing...

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Categories: drowning, 9th grade, anxiety, how

The sacrifice of drowning so others could be saved

Empty, that's all she felt 
She hated the numbness that would blindly attack
She did so much for others 
But she couldn't help herself 

She carried...

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Categories: drowning, discrimination, evil, mental health,

Am I drowning?

Another conversation within myself.
Another riddle within the spectrum of possibility.  
Wouldn't it be wise to search for someone in this
moment of desperation?

Fighting to wipe...

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Categories: drowning, absence, death, depression, divorce,

Hear Me, and Be Still

Do not build a ladder  
when I fall into the abyss  
I did not call for climbing

The thorn in me  
is not...

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Categories: drowning, bird, deep, pain, psychological,

Killing Us

In the quiet corners of my heart,  
I need to cry, to let the shadows part.  
You want to argue, dissect my pain,...

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Categories: drowning, anger, anxiety, bullying, conflict,

Drowning in Echoes

In the quiet depths where shadows swell,  
I dive into the ocean of grief,  
Where the waves whisper secrets,  
And the tides...

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Categories: drowning, death, deep,

Swimming in Grief

It is as if cloudy eyes forecast rain
And the darkest heartache
Bleeds grief like varicose veins
All blue and distorted with pain
Hope is aborted and sadness 
Is...

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Categories: drowning, angst, anxiety, bereavement,

Never Said Goodbye

As I go day by day feeling this unbearable pain.
I can't help but feel as if these thoughts can’t be explained.

I try to change as...

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Categories: drowning, death, depression, goodbye, i

Sewn

expel, release
expel, release
organs filling up with grease
release, expel
release, expel
drowning, swimming, feelings dwell

theres a dark cave where spirits hide
secret thoughts exist inside
misty, noxious, humid slime
in the...

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Categories: drowning, dark, death, fear, imagery,

Drowning In Your Absence

How did this happen?
I wonder.
How the water
Could have 
Dragged you under
Is yet another
Blinding secret
But it would still work to
Bind, so we’d keep it
Nothing held
The weakened...

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Categories: drowning, absence, beautiful, deep, emotions,

Drowning

Drowning is one of the worst ways to die.
You struggle to keep your head above water,
Splashing around and calling out for help.
But no help comes....

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Categories: drowning, cry, dark, goodbye, graduation,

Drowning In Despair

Blood drained from my face, 
Accumulated into a scream.  
Never released,  
The silence was too fragile.  
Dripping into my lungs,  
I’ve...

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Categories: drowning, emotions,

Drowning Dog

I might feel stuck, unable to escape, waiting to die,
But I know that it is not you, holding me still.
Sand in the hourglass flows over...

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Categories: drowning, death of a friend,

Mentally Drowning

She cried her heart out in the shower this morning 
Desperate, anguishing tears
Uncontrollable, convulsing sobs

Anxiety within was strangling her
Clenching and crippling
Incarcerating her into a frozen-like...

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Categories: drowning, anxiety, courage, dark, depression,

Drowning

I have so many things that I would never tell
Not saying things important is something I know very well
I am drowning in the deep end...

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Categories: drowning, age, anxiety, deep, loss,