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Depression Sad Poems

These Depression Sad poems are examples of Sad poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Sad Depression poems written by international poets.

Compounding Demons by Brandon Connor

I now count down the days like I used to count the letters
waiting on when you’ll hurt too so I can start to feel better
straying...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: sad, break up, depression, divorce,

The Raven Road by Babafemi Yinka Olubodun

It's time for harvest, 
Harvest for the farmished farmer. 
Trees of pain; lumbers of frustration. 
Has our agbádá failed our wrappers? 
Will palmwine tinder the...

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Details | Blank verse |

Categories: sad, cry, depression, farewell, hurt,

Ewatomi by Babafemi Yinka Olubodun

Gait precedes her beauty, 
Her calm nature - a soothing balm to Sango's anger, 
calumny isn't our threshold mark, yet, 
she sells shells for the...

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Details | Verse |

Categories: sad, bereavement, depression, emotions, heartbroken,

No More by andrea herrera

Take your seats, make yourselves feel comfortable,
In two minutes, think of something beautiful,
Sunsets, genuine people and smiles,
You think of marvelous things around,
Never once considering that...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: beauty, depression, loss, sad,

Untitled by Brandon Connor

Panic attack, Panic attack
What when where why remedy 
of a soul’s splitting in two
Panic attack, Panic attack
The demons too deep hymn one’s own threnody
The devil...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: sad, angst, anxiety, depression, lost,

blood and rain by sam smith

pouring rain
like pouring blood from my veins

but watching the rain never killed me...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, dark, depression, heartbroken, lonely,

On the passing cloud there floats a dream by purbasha roy

On the passing cloud there floats a dream 

On the passing cloud there floats a dream
Forgotten latent desires ebb flow in heart's realms
Traversing through memories...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: depression, emotions, sad love,

Betweens by Arum Dusu

Between here and there lies a thousand steps
Between 1 & 2 lies uncountable fractions
Between you and I lies 7 billion people
Between love and hate lies...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, break up, depression, heartbroken,

Patch Doll by Ohseannah Hannaesho

Rain chasing rain,
My mother’s heritage
The ability of being used;
Make me smile,	
Touch my hand,
And I am there, slave to a glimpse of acceptance.
Patch doll,
Patches of unfulfilled...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: blue, deep, depression, sad,

Old Friend by Matthew Morton

Hello old friend it's me again
I'm stuck in here with you again
Maybe for once we can play pretend

Like that this time you'll stay away
Wouldn't that...

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Details | Blank verse |

Categories: sad, anger, anxiety, depression, pain,

I Scream and Shout But No One Hears by Caren Krutsinger

I scream and shout but no one hears.
         no one.
       ...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: depression, environment, sad,

Love Shows Itself by Emile Pinet



You'd often just pretend
or be quick to defend
a girl home each weekend
all by herself.

You are always depressed
with hurt feelings suppressed
placing thoughts, naught expressed
on a bookshelf.

When...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: sad, 12th grade, anxiety, depression,

Hopelessness Comes To School by Caren Krutsinger

Hopelessness, make no room for it in your heart or your mind, if you dare.
It will take away your glad, your happy, and your today,
Worse,...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, depression,

Jellyfish by Brianna Hobson

Bell shaped and trailing
Tentacles wrapped around her,
No backbone or spine...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: sad, angst, animal, depression, metaphor,

woman up against the small hours by amarantus lauriere

Half solid half softened whence the moon sheds saturninity down to a boudoir maudlinly marooned.
Half directly half deviously whether night wind sneaks to snoop about...

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Details | Romanticism |

Categories: beauty, depression, sad love,

Sinking again by Carly Davies


Im sinking again,
And now its further than before,
Inch by inch im losing myself,
I cant take it anymore....

Suffocating sounds of silence,
Are louder than you may think,
Drowning...

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Details | ABC |

Categories: sad, anxiety, depression, fear, mental

Slip by Docent UU

A dark night flight
Sneaked...
A whisk of bright light
Feathered a chick
Sparked a spasm
Sore muscles warmed up
Drowsy eye opened up
Through a glass of milk
A cheerful wink
Of the...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: sad, depression,

The Monster Beckons by Alex Mmm

The monster beckons
And you come to meet this new friend.
Fear entices you
And you go, led by its sweet poison.
Loneliness wraps around you 
And you feel...

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Details | Blank verse |

Categories: sad, anxiety, depression, emotions, feelings,

The Theory Of Negativity by Nick Trim

The theory of negativity is relevant to me,
it really sums up my whole reality.
I'm casually nearing the point of insanity,
being out grappled by its gravity.

It...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: depression, pain, poetry, sad,

very rare by blank face

depressing nightmare
a vindictive dark tear drips
betrayed by the past...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: sad, abuse, addiction, angst, anxiety,