Depression Free Verse Poems

You wanna know what one of the worst things in the world is... 
depression 
Yes depression is horrible it eats away at you and ...

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The lonely 

As I sit there in my room all alone, 
All I can think about is the emptiness I feel, 
Nobody to talk to,...

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Anxiety and depression 
Everyone can only imagine what something feels like, they never know what it’s like till they’ve been through it. Everybody thinks they...

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I'm a really hungry wolf
One that’s never satiated.
Your heart isn't enough
I need your whole arm off

I'm a truly gentle wolf,
Feeding on your bounty.
Maybe flesh is...

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I am wildly conscious of the fact
I don’t know how to speak up anymore.
I feel like I’m yelling and no one can
Hear me
I was told...

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In silent drumbeats of depression
throbs a fractal life of no "visualization".
dandelions fluffing in howling winds
fight with Halloween "hallucinations".
behind the dusk of a sealed doorway lies
a...

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SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'M ON A SHORT CLIFF ABOUT TO FALL OVER.
NO WORDS COME OUT OF MY MOUTH, SO I LET MY TEARS DO...

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You Make Me Smile

the diagnosis came as a shock
life altering-all came to a stop
several surgical scar forming resections
steady course of skin burning radiation
multiple courses of...

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She always hated the sight of blood
But now it had become her greatest comfort
She felt her blood was the only one who understood 
What it...

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My Trauma Wears Crocs

My trauma wears Crocs—
bright yellow, with stickers peeling off.
It doesn’t care how serious you want life to look.
It clomps into therapy,
kicks its...

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Many years have slipped beneath the tide of time, yet still I remember.

I was just a youth, standing high above the world from Ocean Towers...

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I gave up on everything, I gave up on everyone.
I know this is a heaven, but I just don't think it was meant for me.
If...

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There are days the sun drags itself across the sky like a wounded thing,
and I follow behind it,
meek as a shadow no one asked for.
My...

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Let sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve...

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They say boys don’t cry.
They say it like a promise.
Like strength is stitched in our skin at birth
and weakness is something
you have to unzip your...

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