Sadness Pain Poems

Tears fill my eyes
Sadness fills my lungs
No one else can see
The things I am running from

Shadows start to move
Voices start to yell
It’s like a grand...

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Written: April 28, 2024, For Constance la France Contest

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.
Sophocles, Greek...

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Fill My Cup

In sorrow You fill my Cup
And it overflows
And in my grief, You come
To comfort me
When I'm down in the valley 
You make mountains...

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There is a thing inside
It claws and gasps for breath
Horrid thoughts reside
Of the sweet release of death
But it is death who in wrath
Leaves me feeling...

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Mama has left
She is no longer alive
She left Mother Earth
She is in the cemetery
Mom is further on
She is, here and there, really
Mother is gone
And no...

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When I am around you 
The good things feel bad, 
And the bad things feel awful 

But I feel drawn, 
To you 
Your power, your...

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I can't believe I'd ever be
part of a normal family
that loves each other without fail
with open arms they will cradle
you with heartfelt love and care
these...

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I write because I love to write,  
writing for a contest makes me think.  
My imagination and creativity come alive,  
as the...

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Anger hides
Behind a gentle gesture
Shouting
How
did you let
this happen
You are there
I know it
See it
In flashes of sadness
In your eyes
In snarls of frustration
On your face
I know
You are...

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4:00 in the A.M.
Useless to go to bed
I have too many things
Going through my head
Piled up like a train wreck
My mind won't let me rest
Although...

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Bluntly, someone said
they could never imagine
my being married.
This stung.
I laughed.
I am more
a comic
than
a romantic.
Pain is preferably felt
without witness;
better yet,
with punchlines.
Those precious people
who cry amongst us...

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XIII: Dreams and hopes...

Dreams and hopes will take new form
Sky's the limit, break the norm
The brain is sensible, follow it blind
Happiness will redefine, even if...

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Time, they say, heals the pain,
Where there is deepest mourning,
So many feelings I can’t explain,
Grief that aches without much warning.

Time, they tell me, will mend...

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Conjuring and challenging my silly, puny solitude…
Enduring and foliage of squalid grief…left me in the nude of the wintertime 
Sometimes, I wander…I wonder…I ponder so...

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If you miss someone this Christmas,
If they’ve left this world and you…
With a heartbreaking grief, so dismal,
It feels like a nightmare has come true….

If you...

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