Depression Poetry Poems

Our love was like the afternoon sun, 
that melted those New York City streets.
But you treated me like dried-up grass,
that just crumbled underneath your feet.

I...

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I am so empty right now
That I have nothing to offer.

I am so alone right now
That in my company;
even loneliness would suffer.

There was a time
I...

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I opened up the window,
the street noise came crashing in.
Pushing sadness in the hole 
where my heart once should have been.

I see the crumpled bed...

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Beneath the churning skies and wrathful sea, 
A lone man wails into swirling agony.
Each crashing wave, a relentless assault,
Mirroring the chaos of his inner tumult.

Beneath...

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I am made of rotten roots

flush with dead skeleton leaves

when touched, crumble

but moss grows on my rib-cage bones 

and mold covers my heart

where there’s moisture

so...

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Within Me

Trapped within, a tempest roars,
Where demons dance and anguish pours,
In the haunted halls of my soul's estate,
Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate...

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The day that you left me to go off to war,
you hugged me and said with a shy little grin.
Don’t worry son there’s nothing that...

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Everyone loves a new mother.
We give her pampering gifts.
Send her carnations and roses.
Promise her candles, warm baths, chocolates.
Tromp into the hospital bearing onesies with cute...

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I'm the version of you that didn't break.
Didn't shatter into useless pieces, broken haggardly upon the floor.
I can feel you,
See you,
Hear you,
Smell you sulking in...

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As i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11...

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When my mind is foggy I find it hard to see
The only clarity being doubt and inadequacy

It’s so much easier to run and hide
Than in...

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Grab a pill

Grab a pill, with chemicals filled
Endocrine to shut down, not to feel
We are told, this is to help us cope
But through it all...

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Trapped in meaningless whirling thoughts
Boundaries draped around the body
Unsaid words confined in laughing gear
Dread sentiment flowing in breadbasket
Trembling uncertainty waving inside the stump
Sealed in anticipation...

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So no matter how down and alone you are feeling right now, know that it will pass. Each of us will walk through the depths...

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Beautiful Blue Butterfly 

In life we go through changes and we all start out as an egg, later down the line we grown into a...

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