Depression Pretty Much Poems

To go out with friends
Without having a care in the world
To find people
who just get me
And accept me the way I am
To be good at...

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I miss the sound of your voice
I miss having my phone on charge
to keep speaking to you for hours
I miss the video calls we'd have
that...

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Out of the 20 bulbs in the ceiling, one never turns on.
Out of 2,000 tiles on the floor, one always squeaks.
Out of 2 million people,...

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Nowadays self-sabotage is glorified
Mothers wide-eyed and terrified 
Of their little babies becoming demonised 
Getting help is horrified
But bottling it up is normalised 
As a society...

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I’m coming down
In these waves, I simply drown
Without a sound
Upon the ground

I’m pretty down, all alone
It’s shown in the unknown
In my universe eyes
In my oceanic...

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Her Fake Smile
                     
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Nodding smiles in Jester's torture
Nothing escapes the fallen tree
   Close my eyes in hollows hiding
Desperation saddening...


Contest-- Arbitrium Divisa 2-- by Gregory Richard Barden...

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I woke up today,
to chaos
and expectations,
and demands.
my heart began pounding
and I threw up my defenses.
Walls erected a million miles high above me
I can finally breathe.
I...

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I am in competition
with no one
with the exception of
myself.

Sometimes I think
life would be easier
if I were
dumb.

Maybe
if I were ugly
people would be
nice.

I
wish people
could see my
heart.

Perhaps
they might
actually...

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Spinning thoughts 
Down like a funnel
Madness she’s got
Time is a tunnel

An abyss of fears 
Hopes to belittle 
Brain turning like gears 
Her heart so brittle...

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Oh pretty pretty gun,
Will you be my friend?
Oh pretty pretty gun,
Will you make this all end?
Oh pretty pretty shiny gun,
Can I ask you a simple...

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I’m painting pretty
There are things you don’t know
So don’t give me pity
For facing my foe


A bright streak on white paper
Whiter than snow
Pretty poison vapor
But how...

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Oh pretty, pretty gun,
Will you be my friend?
Oh pretty, pretty gun,
Will you make this all end?
Oh pretty, pretty, shiny gun,
Can I ask you a simple...

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Pretty, pretty girl. 
Oh, so pretty, Girl, you are. 
Why so sad?  Pretty Girl?
For sadness in the eyes of your beauty is most certain,...

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My tinny girl
Let me taking you to your mother's side
She's worrying about  you
Since the last Flowery Festival
Let us bring her happiness and joy

Stop searching...

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