Pain Poems | Examples

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sweat-soaked
I exhausted countlessly
falling down the nights
throwing myself against
the hollow you left

maybe hurting badly enough
could make you mine again
but now the tide has drawn back
exposing my Sharpie on the sand

you were never something so frightening
as the love of my life
only an amalgamation
of my deepest fears
wearing the face of someone I loved

my foolhardy
but in this one instance
psychic psychosis
twitched my neck

you would be gone
by summer’s end

therefore I swore 
enemies with the world
blind to how I was giving you
reason to do the same

I know it selfish now, the way I held on
though that truth sits poorly on my tongue
for I truly believed that every shadow I cast
was shelter for you

I was a child to his suckle
a pallid magro body
unable to bear its own reflection
until he made you his

Instructions


I am tired of teaching you how to love me.
Tired of translating my heart into instructions.

"I forgot" — you forgot?
How do you forget someone waiting?

You say "sorry, I was in a hurry"
But you were never in a hurry to reach me.

I don't want a goodbye kiss because I asked for it.
I want the one you remembered to give.

©Maya Evans 
21 September 2026

Come Out

Cme out
Door closed, surrounded by walls 
sealed inside , darkness, cries, sadness, lost soul
Look around, alone, scared, confusion, cold
I scream, anyone there?
No responce
I scream, please help me? 
NO responce
stand up walls too high
reach out to feel something 
nothing but darkness
I scream is this real
No responce
weakness, no strength, my legs collapse
I fall  crotched down in a ball , rocking slowly, tears fall
my hands grab my head, am I in trouble, the yelling echos in my head
I look up and see the light, but I cant reach it
the only sound is the voice in my head, 
I scream Please stop talking, I scream STOP!
I hold my breathe, 1 minute, 2 minutes exhale deep breathe in
open your eyes, stand up, leave those thoughts in the dark
You know it will come again, maybe less time
Written down: Come out, the world is right outside your door.
The child inside is an adult, fighting whats behind that closed door


look what you made me do

I screamed until my throat tore - 
"You're hurting me! Please, let me go!"
And you stood there, vacant,
gazing at me with a soft, baffled innocence.,
because you couldnt see the violence of your hands.
You wouldn't see it.

Instead, you looked down at my bleeding body,
shook your head in quiet disappointment,
and whispered,

"Look what you made me do."

already

"I do not want to kill you," you repeatedly pled,
to which I laughed, my wrists seeping red.
"Look at all you've done! 
Please, don't soften what's said.
You can't kill someone,
who is already dead."

Depart From My Language

whispering through a crescendo
I accommodate his monolingually
always spoke prim and smoothed
commercialize me .
be impeccable or simultaneously lukewarm
never to undress again
classic


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • September 14–20, 2026)


Premium Member SPROUTING LIFE

SPROUTING LIFE   

Growth is challenging…
Germinating life struggles…
Sprouting life has its pain…
God always has pain’s healing…
In faith, live a sprouting life…

Premium Member Broken Hearts

A sadistic killer, who enjoys it with relish
A woman desperately in want of love
The age numbers small talk turns to relic
A paedophile never at rest until he gave
A robber on the prowl seeking victims.
Broken hearts need that need mending.
 (Written on the 28th May, 2021)

Pain

Pain
It explodes through my knee
as I fall to the ground
hoping I didn't do it again.

Everyone surrounds me
Asking me questions
making sure I'm okay.
I'm not.
But they don't know that

Other's keep telling me
everything is fine,
nothing happened.
We were all wrong.
Again.

My world turned upside down
for the second time.

The hurdles put up once again
ready for me to knock them back down.

The minutes tick by slowly
as I wait to hear my name.
They say count back from 
10
9
8
7
6
5
blackness

Pain is infinite.
In my knee
In my head
In my stomach
everywhere

All I want to do is sleep.
But the pain is too extreme
and the nurses won't let me.

Pain
As I jump over
hurdle after hurdle
waiting patiently
until it is my turn to be happy again

9 months they said
9 months until I can play again
That's 273 days
That's 6552 hours
That's 393,120 minutes
That's 23,587,200 seconds
Until it is over

Every step
every second of 
every day, working,
hoping ill be better
by the time we start again.
Free from pain.

Premium Member Reflections On My Childhood In The Hospital - SK

Pain creeped in with the early hours of the morning,
I was doubled over in pain.
As I was screaming,
my dad was wrapping me in a blanket.
Off to the hospital he sped,
then carrying me through the big doors.
My appendix was about to burst open,
emergency surgery was for me.

Mind Glitches

I was tying my shoes
Wrapped with thoughts of death
Wondered if the stone beneath me
Would appreciate the human dire
Splashed over it like ketchup
And no, it wasn’t thoughts of suicide
For I know death is not really what I want
Maybe I do write letters sometimes
About my last day on this ground,
but they're just words caused by pain

And yet I can’t help but wonder
If murderers do feel fear when they kill
I wonder if the sin of lying is equal to killing

Talking in Silence

I never told you what I felt
I kept it all to myself
Darkness filling up my soul
Emotions spun out of control
Evil thoughts circled my brain
My heart feeling so much pain
There was so much going wrong
Happening for way to long
Day by day it just got worse
My silence was like a curse
That would leave me so unsteady
Because I was never ready
To share what was deep inside
Each night I secretly cried
Because words I needed to say
To you would just slip away
Every time I tried to seek
The courage I'd become weak
Now I sit here with one thought
Why I never really fought
The angered demons way down deep
Just one whisper or a peep
From my lips right to your ears
Might have taken all my fears
Away -- but I was not that smart
Now its too late  I broke the heart
Of a friend I've known forever
Who stood by me through stormy weather
But this raincloud that follows me
Left both of us in misery

The Sot's Lament

'Tis another sunrise, bright and yellow.
Yet the world that holds me feels so hollow.
My ev'ry breath is but an empty cask.
Yet ev'ry step I take bears a full flask.

Ev'ry thought that I hold makes the ground quake.
Ev'ry conviction makes the wide sky break.
The path I chose remained a cracked tankard.
Yet my journey is a brimming tankard.

All certainty dissolved, and naught remains.
Each thought gives birth to thought in endless chains.
My life is but a bottle with no hole.
I am the sot who wholly lacks control.

Who am I now to stay here, bound in doubt?
To drink, to think—and still to go without?

Hollow Anymore

There’s an emptiness inside me
That makes me hollow
But takes up space.
It crushes me internally,
Takes away my hunger
And doesn’t let me breathe.
I have to force my lungs
To take in the air
Like I’m mouth-feeding my inner child.
But all I take in
Is pain
that keeps me empty.
But then I find you again.
I feel your presence,
Even though we don’t belong 
To each-other anymore
And I feel the colors 
of your soul,
Even tho you don’t want me
Around anymore.
And then You look at me 
Like I have never held you
And You speak to me
Like I’ve never heard you sing
And that pain fills me
But at least I’m not hollow
Anymore.

Sweet Holy Pain

Every brush stroke feels like I’m healing 
As I paint these stars all over your ceiling
Drawing constellations all over the walls 
Slow dancing to you every time that you call 

I trace the soft orbits of our shadows aligned
To rid the world of perfection—it’d be so unkind
No man or Adonis could entrap me, its feeble
You’re a child of beauty, so damn pure and regal 

I wait in the depths of my own bleeding heart
Trying to tear down the walls that keep us apart
You grant me sweet nothings—a pleasurable start
I’m living on the moon now and I’ll never depart

Fading in, fading out with every kiss of your name
You’ve got me in your palm and I have no one to blame
Take a bow in the silence, my efforts are in vain
Because loving you darling.. is sweet holy pain.

Pain Categories

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