Life Sad Poems | Examples

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


Premium MemberTHE UNSEEN AND WHAT REMAINS

By Poet..... "Sometime life is unseen. What remains then shows up."
Over the many years, pillows have been filled with tears. Unseen dreams of attacking bears, representing my many fears. Now unseen what remains? It is all locked away in my brains, tied tight with heavy chains. Sometimes red busting veins, filling me with overwhelming pains.


Premium MemberOur Four Years

After four years of marriage 
I cannot remember my life before 
You turned my life around 
Showed me life was so much more

Now every memory is of us
Every thought is about you
In everything that I partake 
It's a reminder of you

You loved me when I was down
But I never made it to my feet 
I was pulling you with me
With my anger and deceit 

As you walked away I saw
That you had tears in your eyes 
I know it wasn't easy for you 
And I had had a million tries 

You won't answer your phone 
You refuse to talk to me anymore 
That hurts my already broken heart
That shattered here on the floor

I wouldn't change a thing 
About all our good times at least 
But I'd change every argument 
And I never would be that beast

Premium MemberNever Say Never

life can be funny or sad depending on how it goes I have had girlfriends say they would never love again they invited me to their big wedding day I feel that never is a very long time why put the word never onto anything I said for many years not to say never never is not in my vocabulary.

Premium MemberDeaths Deal



Death is not the enemy you believe 
And death isn't what you should fear
Death we all shall truly desire 
For only death makes troubles disappear

Death is not some fancy illusion
Full of smoke and mirrors to deceive
Death offers to relieve your troubles
And will accept all it can receive

With death there's no worries or regrets
Any wrong or mistakes they slip away
They all vanish and bother you no more
There's hardly any cost you must pay

What death offers no one can match
Nothing else can do what death can do 
You want peacefulness to fill your life
Isn't the cemetary peaceful to you

Premium MemberStranded in Wasteland

And so we wait.
As time stands still
we hold our breath and wait.

The rising of the sun,
the disappearing of the moon,
life goes on as we wait.

The pendulum in motion.
Time passing that we will never see again
yet still we wait.

We let time run through our fingers
as if we didn’t know its value.
Like watching money burn.

Sometimes it’s the thing to do
but… soon enough comes the day 
we recognize our folly.


Premium MemberHolding On

You took your love away 
I'm trying my best to hold on 
I know that if I let you go 
You will forever be gone 

I cannot accept that scenario 
A life without you next to me 
Would be a life I couldn't live
A nightmare i never want to see 

How could I even try to live
Without you being in my life 
The only thing I did right in  life
Was simply  making you my wife 

I know there has to be something
I don't want our marriage to end 
I know your heart is broken now 
And it will take time for it to mend 

I love you with all my heart and soul 
I'm tired of being the reason you cry 
Please give me my last last chance 
Before you say your last goodbye

Premium MemberLiving together

Life, the ambivalent gift
Built of moments, incidents, experiences,
Images in colour, lingering
In cameos, memories, scattered

Blending in feelings
Breezes stirring love, need, fear,
Joy sometimes
All made of precious little bits
Vulnerable to annihilation

From what is listed
Thereof sing
Into the dark
Absorbent void
Which is the future

And sweet life lived together
In the grip of Time
Twists into sadness;
Contemplates forever
What used to be.

Premium MemberEpiphany

Epiphany Poetry Contest. Sponsored by: Constance La France
By Poet: "Words are very cheap. Actions are worth their weight in gold. Look for actions, Not words."
I have a great friend, she tells the truth and will never bend. We love going out, shopping and eating makes for a magical day. I help her then she helps me, that is the way friendship should be. She called me sister, what an honor that was. Then one very sad day, I had an epiphany. She was filled with lies, I had been deceived.

Premium MemberBlock off the sorrow

Block off the sorrow
Wall off the pain
Quarantine tomorrow
When it returns again.

Don't play her music
Don't let the chords start
It penetrates the armor
that surrounds my heart.

She lies in a grave
Under a stone
She hoped and she gave
Now it's all gone.

You can riff a jazz song
You can play hard rock 
Keep it harsh and strong
Don't turn on the clock.

In her last days her hairdresser came
Into our modest home
Temporarily cheered her up
with a scissors and a comb.

How have the mighty fallen
How has a vibrant life come low
I hear the past a' callin'
A place where I can't go.

So don't play that oldies song
Leave those memories alone.
Some doors stay closed for a reason—
Some hearts are better stone.

Premium MemberUNIVERSAL BATTLE

I'm going through a lover's quarrel.  
The universe is fighting with me.  
I'm trying to get the knowledge,  
Thinking about my destiny.  
Already figured it out, not trying to disrespect my family.  
Caught between the life cycle of who I'm really trying to be.  
Knowledge is the only way to live; that's all that matters to me.  
But the force is so strong that I'm losing mentally.  
I'm arguing with the universe that's stuck inside of me.  
It's trying to elevate me to a place to live out eternity.  
The elevation is stuck between one and seven.  
The lower numbers are hell, and the higher numbers are heaven.  

All I'm trying to do is get back my lost history.

Premium MemberSimple Being

Simple being is what I worth the most
Any lofty ideals I won’t justify 
I ditch principles and credos of those
Who are chosen to rule, born to lie
The existence I own makes enough
Foundation for the rest that I need 
Like perceiving music, arts, feeling love
Taking care of the garden and weed
Hamlet’s question seems idle to me
Hope I don’t sound stiff or too proud
I’m your happy sad Jack - just to be
Is the most comfy thing I have found.

Premium MemberI Almost Didn't Make It

I almost didn't make it to be here today,  
So sit back and let me tell you the story my way.  
I was walking out of the store one day  
when some guys wanted to take my life away.  
Bullets started flying, people running for cover.  
They shot me three times, over and over.  
As I lay on the ground, I'm screaming for help.  
Had to crawl out of the street and dialed 911 myself.  
I'm laying there dying, and the Angel of God spoke to me and said,  
"My son, I'm with you here today, and you're not dead."  
That's when I closed my eyes, and the ambulance drove away.  
I woke up from a coma; that's when I started to pray.  
God spared my life. He loves me so much.  
I talk to Him every day now with a heavenly touch.

Premium MemberWhere Do Teardrops Go


Those tears will start to flow and ease the pain
That stabs the heart and slowly overflows.
And as a river rises with the rain,
The soul will feel that fullness as time grows.

And filled with sadness, teardrops ease their way
To flood the eyes and saturate each cheek
Then often wiped away as if to say,
Unburden me to find the peace I seek.

Where do tears go when each is wiped or dried?
As raindrops, do they quickly disappear?
Or are they trophies of the times we've cried
For our recoveries from loss or fear?

Each teardrop joins that river in our life
That helps the soul stay full in times of strife. 

Premium MemberShadows

I sleep with shadows
hollow dreams of lustful death,
pleasure begets sickness.

Beneath my eyes lies doubt
begging, pleading for grace.

I walk with shadows
consuming objects, life forms, moments–
Illusions of control.

My image dissolves before I do,
my outline fades into absence.

I scream with shadows
giving life to the everlasting eclipse,
our shrouds staining pavements.

Wraiths of darkness rise and scatter 
like roots of a dying tree.
I answer to Shadow.

Light brings color and joy.
Looking down at the darkness I cast,
light has no place in my world.
© Seth Pina  Create an image from this poem.

Premium MemberFORGIVENESS IS NEVER FORGOTTEN



I want to tell you I'm sorry,
I asked God for direction.

We are the same you and I, 
Our summer meeting was a hazardous timing.

No reason it can't be reversed to begin,
At the beginning again, it's almost the end.

So cruel we have suffered and blamed each other,
It's a pity that doesn't need a party just a chance to forgive one another.

In closing I will say, 

We were trying to put our heads together,
To bring justice for another.

We were untrusting of life itself, 
We didn't trust anyone, with good reason.

I made mistakes, so did you, we are human and it just wasn't our season.

Amen.

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