Depression Today Poems

My Prayer For Today
2/6/2024
Miracle Man

Sometimes I’m caught dwelling,
on the situation at hand.
When things are upsetting,
and I don’t quite understand.

I pray, God take this problem,
that has...

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A beer

My person is not built to work all the time.
I want to enjoy life...
My way...
I already had my career and it sucked
Selfishness and greed
I...

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Goodbye is a feast finished
The last morsel down the hatch
Improper to ask for seconds
No aperitif to this lonely hunger

For every goodbye must be a hello
Even...

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I have nothing to give to you
Nothing at all 
It’s all a dream in my head 
I have nothing to give to you
Take what you...

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my dog took me for a walk today
as he usually does
he knows the way
people assume that I take him out
that's not the case
he leads me...

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Waking from a troubled dream, 
I'm haunted by the things I've seen.
A world on fire with seas of glass, 
and burnt and whithered trees and...

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Trigger warning, in remembrance to one ending their own life and losing their battle. 

When it softly rains 
I can't help but think, what gentle...

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Smoke in the morning 
Chilly anticipating
Brace to speak out there

Cats are meowing
Think felines are a burden
Ticked off still feed them

Endure the sunrise
Negotiating doomsday
Fumes call me...

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Winters Solstice seems like a never-ending Earthly purgatory
The sun has taken less than more to a different story
It's January, the last true warmth my cold...

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For Sarah

I have so many questions
As to why you've gone away
Maybe I'm not meant to know
Perhaps you couldn't say

I'll never see your smile again
Or see...

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Yesterday, I was going down...
Today, I am back to my elevated state! 
Yesterday the devil tipped my crown, 
Today, its on quite straight!

Another chance to...

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Always keep my vans tied
So don't ever say I'm tripping 
Not even when I'm falling or diving off the board of depression 
I'm bored of...

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(A World of Monsters & Men series)

Tomorrow jug
Half full
With yesterday’s thought
Tomorrow I’ll fill it up completely 
With today’s thought 
But - I won’t dare to...

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Somedays I feel so low, like I'm drowning and can't get air
My chest hurts and regardless of how deep the breathe It's not enough air
Suffocating...

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Today or Yesterday

Today the gas price is over 5.00. 
We struggle now to decide what to pay? 
The food bill, 
the rent bill, 
or the...

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