Poems About Depression

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  • Who am I?

    by a broken smile with a broken heart is a poets life

    I've never been happy,
    not in my childhood, adolescence or as an adult...

  • Exhaustion

    by a broken smile with a broken heart is a poets life

    I'm exhausted,
    I try to scream and detach...

  • Identity

    by a broken smile with a broken heart is a poets life

    My tears roll
    and my mind screams...

  • searching

    by Acacia

    as much as i want her to
    my body will not lie...

  • I mustn't tether pain to land
    With knots that will not loose or fray...

  • Better Left Unsaid 1

    by Lost Shadow

    So much easier to fake a smile
    Rather than to tell the truth...

  • The war is all a blur now, there is nothing I...
    Maybe it was us against the world, me against you...

  • Hold on 1

    by Jack Nightengale

    I climb the mountain with no safety line,
    Hanging by fingernails out of my mind...

  • The purpose of anger. (3) 2

    by Poet on the Piano

    The anger keeps me alive every single time.
    It's all part of the cycle...

  • This Isn’t Heaven

    by X Harlea X

    What is this place, it’s not what they said.
    There’s no golden gates, just icy cold dread...

  • Poseidon's Door 2

    by Synful

    The ocean calls to me -
    Her siren song so captivatingly harmonious...

  • Dimensionless. 1

    by Poet on the Piano

    You ask what depression’s like for me, and I try...
    how it comes in a myriad of shapes and shades...