Depression Free Verse Poems

I just want to go the brink of death
To those last moments,to those few milliseconds
To that last fraction
Before going to place from where there is...

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i used to try harder

i used to search for opportunities

but the opportunities were always out of reach

and the support was nonexistent.

i used to try to...

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darkness.

i can't sleep, so i don't

i pace the room instead

like a caged animal.

there's nowhere to go

i go to my closet, sit there in the silence.

i...

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these days the lights are too dim for me

these days my skin looks too dark in the mirror

these days the world is not crisp enough.

did...

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Once ...
Yes, once, but not now ...
I am not IN the world anymore -
so far gone, is that state of quixotic and callow carelessness ...
not...

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Imagine him,
As a dark, 
Shadowy figure,
Who follows you around,
All day, 
Every day,

He controls,
Your every move,
And every thought,

You can’t run from him,
Nor can you hide,
No matter...

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Every day it's harder to get out of bed
To find the person I used to be
The person I am meant to be
Where is the talkative...

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I didn't want to live this year
The mirage was different this year
My life was taking from me in a 
Flash. I gave everything and in
Return...

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howl of despair
iron gate swinging shut
slowly
’til but a crevice remains.
life obscured
mourning that
 				unlived.

sorrow unheard
forgiveness unspoken
darkness enshrouding
death without dying
howl unvoiced
				alone.
...

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Help!
I think I’m sinking,
Into a dark hole
Again.

I don’t want to go back,
I can't take it anymore.
It’s cold and dark and lonely,
Please don’t let me go.

I...

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do you know what it's like to not Create?
to watch without expression your fate?
my Time has been stripped 
by a System that's dipped
in a false...

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Goodbye old friend. I'll miss you the most. Don't blame my cold shoulder. My Heart needs to pull away to give you all you need....

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NO ONE SEES HER

    her essence
flickers in the shadows.

camouflage
             ...

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I am applauded for my supposed talents and works.  Can’t they see the talents and works are nothing more than self-loathing’s reign over me....

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Depression comes in all its guises,
including suicide.
And you entertain a multitude
of sad and bewildering emotions
that fester away
in the back of your conscious mind.
Somehow your soul...

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The flame of the poet...
Has burned out...

I have nothing to say...
I have been silenced...

Until the future......

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Stained yellow teeth, decades of mistreatments;
Tattered worn hair, mustered stare...
Worn torn shoes just vagabond, dementia rusted mind;
Seems he's been here before, open spaces relics;

My yard...

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The brain is constantly rotating. My heart and soul is beaten down. My hands have turned as cold as stone. Caliust rough to touch. My...

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I sometimes wonder, am
I the only one to see
That there's a monster who lives
on the inside of me?
One who tends to only grow
stronger with the...

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Without her-there's no 
 tellin' where I'd be
I'd be tossed by waves &
 forever lost at sea
Self-destructive & barely 
 clinging to life
My spirits turned...

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