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Mentalillness Poems

The Girl I Used To Be

I look down now
And I can just barely see
The thin, pale white lines
From the girl I used to be

The girl who’s not so far gone
Not as dead as you think
But instead of watching skin bleed
She now just puts it in ink

As the clock ticked faster
The calendar pages flipped
More and more time passed
And the scars started

Categories: mentalillness, 9th grade, addiction, hurt,
Form: Quatrain

3am Breakdowns

Laying in the hospital bed taking in
stares and remarks, reminding
me of the inconvenience of my 3am
breakdown. The pills
still swirling around in my stomach. It's
funny how when I'm
down someone's determined to still
drive me into the ground. For that very
reason, being taken away to go stay
behind those four walls in that hospital
room, walking around in grippy socks,
and

Categories: mentalillness, abuse, depression, loneliness, mental
Form: Free verse

When A Child Screams

When a 5 year old child screams a father leaves
When the father leaves the 5 year old child is broken
When the child breaks the mother cries
When the mother cries the vibration of her cry makes the wine glass break
When the wine glass breaks the glass falls to the ground
When the glass falls to the ground

Categories: mentalillness, child, crazy, deep, drink,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Stuck Inside

I have this strong hatred in my heart
for this one thing and its every part.
I hate how it thinks and how it acts,
I hate it in the present and in the past.
I'm sure I'll hate it in the future too,
It seems there's nothing I can do.
I've tried being accepting and I've tried being kind,
I've tried

Categories: mentalillness, anxiety, dark, depression, lonely,
Form: Rhyme

Abide in Me

In anger, I scream at the wall.
In pain, onto my pillow I fall.
I take it out on my bed,
punching, my face turns red.
I grab my razor out of despair,
"nobody will see if I make the cut there."
For a minute, the pain subsides,
I take a breath as red fills the line.
For a brief time, I finally

Categories: mentalillness, bible, christian, encouraging, god,
Form: Rhyme

Mom

I’m 15, a depressed teen. 
Wishing life was good, but a dream is just a dream. 
I hurt myself thinking that the bad stuff is my fault.
I lose my hope thinking life will halt.
I’m wrong, though I wish I was right, for all these emotions give me a fright. My desire is that I’ll be

Categories: mentalillness, 10th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse

Brainstorm Colors

Waking, she inspects the color under her sweater
and sighs that vague orange is still wearing her.
Orange can’t be her friend until it reveals its core.

While white is already a friend, the floating ones
aloofly speak of odd concerns she cannot pattern.
At times, float-whites hear, but never do they listen
or cease insisting that she has dreams, NOT

Categories: mentalillness, abuse, angst, betrayal, color,
Form: Free verse

Silence Crashed Gray

For My Holly

Silence crashed gray ‘round me in jarring strikes.
		news glued me undone ~ chilled shade blued my sun
Mere seconds flogged me numb with scarring spikes.
                your mind failed its start ~ I bore a shelled heart
We two had overturned

Categories: mentalillness, best friend, change, confusion,
Form: Rhyme