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Life Mental Illness Poems

These Life Mental Illness poems are examples of Mental Illness poems about Life. These are the best examples of Mental Illness Life poems written by international poets.


Premium Member the good fight
* death is a process of many stages, and dementia can be one of the ugliest … Dad taught me many lessons in life, and...

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Categories: mental illness, age, analogy, father son,



the day i woke up from my suicide
it was cold, yet hot,
a fever.
i am surprised,
as though I didn't fill myself with poison
just the night before.
my arm is taped down,
attached to an iv,
four...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental health, mental illness,

Premium Member When I Am Up - For Mental Health Month
When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue.

When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William...

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Categories: mental illness, how i feel, love,

I cannot tell him
I cannot tell him that I still love him,
That losing him breaks my heart in a thousand new ways each day.
Because if I did, then...

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Categories: mental illness, heartbroken, loss, love, love

A solitary figure
In the dimly lit corners of her existence,
She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence.
From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born,
Destined...

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Categories: mental illness, dark, loneliness, lost, mental



Comfort Zone
In shadows deep, she seeks her rest,
Where pain's embrace feels like a test.
Her heart, a fortress, cold and still,
Where echoes of her anguish fill.

The girl,...

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Categories: mental illness, angst, confusion, dark, depression,

I will commit suicide
I will commit suicide

I will commit suicide
I can’t live
Someone wants kill me
I don’t need this life
English psychology…
English psychology…
Destroyed my life

Why?
I don’t know
Am I a human?...

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Categories: life, love, mental illness,

Premium Member Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress
"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress"
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

The hourglass, 
a skeletal jester, 
mocks in the tomb's chill,
Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, 
"Soon...

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Categories: death, loneliness, mental illness,

Mirror's War
In the weeping crack of dawn, a battleground unfurls,
Reflected in the mirror’s gaze, a storm behind two girls
One, a wisp of tattered light, eyes shimmering...

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Categories: mental illness, confusion, dark, hurt, mental

Shifting Tides
The shifting tides of change washed over me like a tidal wave. 
It was in that moment of chaos and uncertainty that I found my...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, art, community, freedom,

Premium Member FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
CRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY

AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN...

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Categories: mental illness, america, analogy, anxiety, mental

Premium Member Paradise Is Falling
the lawns are strewn in paradise
roses stained, unsweetened
beauty is bleeding
can we lick these festering sores?

my days are alchemy
as I exhaust to turn a gold
and paradise...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, depression, life, mental

Premium Member Crisis team with agent Brown
Hello I'm agent Brown I am not in  a good place

Hi agent Brown it's okay I'm here for you 

it's the dark place again...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, dark, health, hero,

My inner child
My inner child 

Today I reconnected with my inner child,
I realised how she once always smiled, 
Her innocent glowing face is now tear stained,
And full...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental illness, childhood, children, deep, meaningful,

Serenity
Rich and unrelenting are you
You who has captured me so
Always changing never ending
The water to my kindling.

Tall and blue are you
You who has enraptured me...

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Categories: mental illness, blue, death, depression, how


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