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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.


clouded
Today,
the sadness slid in like fog—
not sudden,
just there.
Heavy without being invited.

I sit with it,
ashamed,
like I’ve broken something sacred
by feeling low in the presence
of someone so...

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Categories: sad, absence, depression, feelings, how



My Eye, the Grave of Words
To keep my words from falling apart,
I need the blood that leaves my heart.

I chose to stay and face the pain,
so it won’t feel so...

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Categories: sad, dark, depression, introspection, mental

New Beginnings
(April 7, 2025)

To new beginnings,
A moment in time where we have an opening to try and start anew
Every soul has dealt with yearning for a...

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© sun dazer  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad, anxiety, blessing, courage, depression,

Yearning Into Reverie
On dark, cold soil,
atop the soaring green turf,
lay cold, rusty, nostalgic houses.

The path that led to them
was faded and shallow,
with the feeling
it could cave in
at...

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Categories: sad, childhood, depression, humanity, life,

Burnt Out Bulbs
You never saw past the glory days of 17. 
Because you got sad and thought it a better idea
to hang yourself from the ceiling fan
instead...

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Categories: sad, 10th grade, 11th grade,



My Bedroom
A place that is supposed to make you feel safe.
A sanctuary, I guess you could call it,
And for most people, it is.
But not for me.

No,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, sad,

Headache
This headache is killing me.
Beating through my skull, this throbbing pain.
It's so constant and that might be the worst part.
Sitting alone in my bed slowly...

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Categories: sad, anxiety, depression, family, friend,

A Lonesome Catharsis
He never questioned the weight behind his eyes until the day he finally woke up. For as long as he could remember, the mud had...

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Categories: sad, change, emotions, identity, loneliness,

Nobody
“Who is it about?”
	You. It’s always been you. For months. Worth more than gold, weighing less than mud are my thoughts. Months of downplaying, cast...

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Categories: sad, crush, cute love, heartbreak,

The Poisoning of My Mind
There are days the sun drags itself across the sky like a wounded thing,
and I follow behind it,
meek as a shadow no one asked for.
My...

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Categories: sad, deep, depression, growth, heartbreak,

It will be okay
When movements cease and passion turns a bore
That voice increases, louder than before.
Unravelling temptations and taunting that sting
that I promised I wouldn’t do, I’ve tried...

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© Meg Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad, 12th grade, allegory, beauty,

snail
How can you truly be happy, when you`ve never felt it before, like your whole life you`ve only felt nothing else but a heart that´s...

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Categories: sad, depression, emo, emotions, feelings,

Echoes of Decrepit Days
As yellow leaves wither in the autumn breeze,
only apathetic thoughts remain 
in this nonchalant existence of 
my diseased body and over the hill mind!

It reminds...

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Categories: sad, age, depression, emotions, fate,

the reason why
The reason why i keep to myself
my feelings in simpler terms
is because i can't explain them 

I tell myself it's all okay,
But I know it’s...

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Categories: sad, 8th grade, anxiety, best

How To Stay Broken
Wake up. If you can.
Or just lie there, blank-eyed,
Listening to the ceiling rot.
Time is fake. Clocks are arrogant.
Let them tick for someone who matters.

Forget food....

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Categories: sad, angst, conflict, dark, depression,


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