Depression Spoken Word Poems

It's only 2:00 am.
I even waited to take the drugs
till midnight,
so I wouldn't have to fight
an extra 2 hours through the night

Not that it makes...

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These next _ minutes are going to be hard...

I open my eyes
Not sure what time it is,
but I bet I can guess.
The drugs never work...

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Don’t talk to me about self-control
If you’ve never cried in your bed
After trying to quit for the 50th time.
Don’t tell me “it’s just a phase”
If...

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I’ve been runnin'

Out of breath,
cold sweat, lungs burnin'

But these legs, they move but they aint goin’ -
no place, no distance can be found between the...

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This is different

Eerie

The winds have changed.
The colors fade into
a lifeless, chalky form,
and all life disappears
in a uniform fashion,
as I stand at its edge,
too scared to...

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I 

don't 

remember

the first time

You

met

me

I wonder to what degree that upsets you

I can't recall 

The first time you called,
Though I've been told you phone in...

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The day they kidnapped you
Was the day I found myself lost.
I found myself mostly numb
In a frosted layer of my own tears --
My eyes now...

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(Deep breath, like a sigh)
I'm just a girl, they say, just a fragile thing, but beneath this skin a storm is raging, a constant, churning...

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Colors

Blue the color of her eyes
That hid the pain 
The ones that ahead the tears 
When no one is near 
The ones that have the...

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I wanted to write a poem,
that wasn’t poisoned with my pain
and lack of optimism to prove
to myself,
to others,
that I’m rising from the ashes,
stronger than before.
Back...

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She stares into nothing,
Like when she looks in the mirror. 
Not recognising what she’s seeing,
She used to see things clearer.
The clearness became distorted,
It became everything...

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"Illusions of Love"

Judged at every stage, condemned from the start,
Labelled and demonized—torn apart.
Mistreated, ill-treated, seen as a threat,
Running for safety but never safe yet.

Love, an...

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Step by step she lost every ounce of happiness in her,
This is not a suicide note it's a monologue,
Strangely every full moon the wolf got...

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Have lost so much of what had remained in me 
I used to have beautiful thoughts and nice poems 
Read deep books , wished to...

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Takotsubo


My grief would overtake me.
There was nothing that could shake me.
I could not get out of bed. I had nothing but bedhead. 
Hygiene was lacking,...

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