Depression Life Poems

My face is tired looking.
They tell me that.
I’m like a zombie, except I have health insurance.
Meds should help.
But I’m claustrophobic.
The pill bottle I’m in is...

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27 years it took her to realize she wasn't alone;
she had herself.
But who was she? She felt more.
So she left. Alone like an iceberg, she...

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Delusion must be a comforting thing;
To see the world just how you like.
To give you purpose every day
And let reality take a hike.

But don't be...

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They are all about my age.
It feels like they are clones of me, but they smile.
I feel my key in my back pocket.
I step out...

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Tell me the clouds aren't hung on fishwire

That it's chance should trees reach such like a spire

That even with elements scrambled so dire

This Earth can...

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I don't believe in murder
Nor anything of its kind.
I also couldn't care less,
You'll be shocked to find.

I don't believe in purpose,
I'd paddle out to sea,
I...

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Inspiring as it is 
To be around the alive,
The whole thing does feel
Just a little contrived
 
I think rather be dead instead
Found by a wife,
Asleep...

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Love's warm embrace—unknown to me,  
A hopeless chase, where's home to be?  
Alone and broken, life fades away,  
A journey's end in...

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If I end myself 
Some, instead of missing me
Turn disappointed...

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"What Ifs" and "redos" blind me from what I should to be doing
Maybe I should buy glasses...

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P A U S E S,
They'd say it's good.
How far? I'd wonder.

S T O P.
If you need,
Wonder, for how long.

P A U S E 
If...

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Will I get anywhere in life?
How can I find myself a job?
Will I ever be noticed for anything good?
Why don't I want to do what...

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(Grease Bubbles, 2021, original photo)

Practicing to Die 

Laying in bath
An inner vision of geometric patterns
Dances around a swirling kaleidoscope
Dizzying as an ocular migraine.

So lulled in...

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If I'm not gone I feel like I'm not worth it at all
But I don't wanna kneel I prefer to stand tall...

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Evils

Money-hungry xenophobic cruelty
Automated psychopath robots
Lustful murderous tendencies
White cloaks, expensive sedatives

Human values and hopes are dead
Trampled and discarded religions
Disgusting psychology thrives on life - there
Alcohol and...

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