#depressing poetry

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[help-here-for-depressed-peers]

[unabashedlywingedtraveler]

Another year (poem)

The winter days are rolling in

You and I are still around

All that talk of giving up

Yet no one heard a sound

Could it be no one would listen?

Is it hard to lend an ear?

Either way if you’re reading this

Please know I’m glad you’re still here

Go out and find your voice

Be who you’re meant to be

And if all goes wrong and falls apart

Come back, you can talk to me.

[vanx-97]

Leave me here alone to die

I’m so tired of you making me cry

This life I live is not mine

Your words control me all the time

Out my mind, you want me gone

On the inside I don’t belong

You make me feel like I can’t hold on

That the person I am is so wrong

I should be like this

I should be like that

Stick to the script

Being different is bad

My work is cliche, nothing new

This thing here won’t get you far

Keep your job, stay in school

You’re not very good at making art

I don’t want to listen to you

I don’t want to do what they do

I am nothing, if what you say is true

Then if I fail at what I love, there’s nothing to lose

[graveyard-poetry]

feed me lies false hopes and empty promises I will believe them – always.

[warm-body-cold-soul]

I wish I could love myself the way I love you

-★

[cassiethehazel]

[halfdeadgemini12]

Im trapped in childish fear

And face the expectations of adults

Im stuck in childish needs

And have to act accordingly

To two digits

Im so far behind caught up in childish Dreams

The reality couldnt be more bleak

I wish someone could see me as I am

To lull me into sleep

And not cry myself to only see the horrors dismembered scattered through my brain

I wish being quiet was not being weird or wrong or rude

I wish being sensitive was not being weak and helpless

I wish needing help with basic tasks was normal

I wish being me was acceptable

[myrainbowtornadoworld]

“I don’t remember what they looked like, but I do remember the blood. There was so much blood. I don’t think most people have ever seen that much blood in their life. It’s like the walk of shame for cutting the morning after when you go into the bathroom. The walk of horror. Having to go back and clean up all the blood and scrub the floor and your skin and wash it out of your clothes. It becomes so normalized to you, but you never forget to hide it from others. That wasn’t my first walk of shame. I’m a prostitute that gets paid in blood, and I’m my own pimp, too. I force the knife into my own skin. It’ll always be a walk of horror to others, though.”

- cuts, d.c.

[greyaugustuspoetry]

i look up

at the ceiling

trying to find

stars

or at least

something

to prove

that life

isn’t hard

- Grey Augustus

[help-here-for-depressed-peers]

[unabashedlywingedtraveler]

Fighting for you. (Poem)

Doesn’t take much to give up on hope

To forget about what it’s all for

Falling to the end of your limited rope

Grasping for that little bit more

You’re fighting but you don’t know why

Your reasons becoming a blur

Like a knot that’s becoming untied

Until you realise it’s all just for her

But what if that light disappears

What if this all ends in pain

One of our biggest of fears

That we’ll be back at the start once again

[vanx-97]

When will I feel okay?

The world is out to get me everyday

Will I find happiness?

If I do, what difference will it make?

I've been distant for a couple of months

Comfortable with being numb

These emotions, I feel none

Just a shell is what I've become

This frown, they know it well

They're tired of seeing it, I can tell

Wish it was something I could fix

I think it's a part of myself

I see them all, they love their lives

It must be so easy for them at night

Monsters torment me in the dark

And they keep me cold in the light

[graveyard-poetry]

the world is burning i want to cry a zillion tears to extinguish it.

[boring-ally]

How could you?

If I saw you I’d run up to you and hug you.

But then I would have to break away, because all the sweet nothings you’d tell me would fill my body up and I’d fly away.

What happened to you not being able to live without me?

Our connection was so strong. You took that from me.

You’d try and pretend you were different, but you were just like them but with a manipulative twist.

I would still hug you just to feel what I thought was true.

I wanted it to be true so bad.

I wonder if you ever think about me.

You’re unforgettable, I know you like the back of my hand.

You linger in my mind. Show yourself so I can be done with you once and for all.

You are not my safety.

You were a fairytale, but this one didn’t have a happy ending.

How could you?

I change my mind.

If I saw you I would pretend you didn’t exist just like how you did to me.

You let it all drift apart.

How could you?

You lied to me. You lied to me.

You hurt me.

How could you?

Was any of it even true?

Was I ever enough for you?

How could you.

I loved you.

I loved you.

I don’t need you.

And I never did. But how could you?

You knew I was broken. You added onto my pain.

How could you.

I just wanted to me sane.

How could you?

[lovermanslament]

unloved

In shadows, I feel unloved, my heart aches,

In search of solace, love's warmth it takes,

Tears stream down, staining my soul's core,

Dreams of affection, shattered and sore.

In the silence of the night, I cry,

A lonely soul, asking the heavens why,

Yearning for love's touch, an embrace divine,

But left abandoned, lost in love's design.

Each passing day, the ache remains,

In this desolate heart, love's absence stains,

A haunting melody of what could have been,

Never to start, forever unseen.

In the starlit night, I find no peace,

Only loneliness, a constant increase,

A labyrinth of emotions, so deep,

In the realm of unloved souls, I weep.

Yet, dear heart, I'm not alone in this plight,

In the vast universe, we share the same fight,

Together, our trials and despair we bear,

In darkness, finding solace in each other's care.

Let these tears cleanse my weary soul,

Embrace the pain that makes me whole,

For though love seems a distant star,

I'm not alone, for we all bear a scar.

And so, I'll wander this path alone,

Embracing the ache, making it my own,

In shadows cast, I'll find my way,

Through unloved nights, until a distant day.