Best Depression Poems

Heartaches will never last nor will they ever stay;
sorrow shall go so fast in the passing of day.
Once in a little while, one's heart may break and bleed;
abandoned by the smile, his teardrops want to plead.
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'Just get over it, ' they say
I wish I could find a way
Living with it day by day
Memories won't go away
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Inside that feeling of depression..........
It's not just a silly superstiotion...........
It's hard to make this confession........
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call it the greenhouse effect or whatever
but it just doesn't rain like it used to.
I particularly remember the rains of the
depression era.
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The flood of recession
has shaken the foundation
of house of hope,
built on land of optimism
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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
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Stand in front of the mirror
Either boys or girls, some got depression
Try to find yourself underneath the reflection
Dissect each point, seek for perfection
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Depression makes me feel pain
Depression makes me stupid
Depression makes me feel low
Depression makes me mad
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in those days
as cavemen..man feared
the rumble and tumble in the sky
the lightning and thunder
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I'm waiting for the very person,
Who'll wipe off my sorrows,
The one who will give me a hug,
When I have no hope left.
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In a wayward adventure in curiosity —
lured away from savvy of cooler judgment,  
he oversteps the bounds of reality 
into a state of altered awareness.
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I had a Hippopotamus, I kept him in a shed
And fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread
I made him my companion on many cheery walks
And had his portrait done by a celebrity in chalk
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Depression isn't obvious but suicide is.
My pain nobody sees.
My my mangled body they shall see.
My head was all but a mess.
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Oh!
Wight of puny might
Junk the junk food
it’s dynamite
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Our lives avoided tragedy
Simply by going on and on,
Without end and with little apparent meaning.
Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes.
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True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?
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Depression is like a tidal wave pulling you further in
You don't feel upto facing anyone or anything

Depression is a huge emphasis on feeling sad and low
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Depression is a world
Depression leaves you lost
Depression drops you into a never ending black hole
You want to get help
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Depression is being tired, when you're never able to sleep
Depression is pity, when you hate other's sympathy
Depression is longing for more, when you never acknowlede what's already there
Depression is the feeling of self-hatred, when the arrogance is concurrently overwhelming
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My name is Johnson--
Madam Alberta K.
The Madam stands for business.
I'm smart that way.
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I shed my tears; my tears – my consolation;
And I am silent; my murmur is dead,
My soul, sunk in a depression’s shade,
Hides in its depths the bitter exultation.
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Pain
Pain over here pain over there
Pain in my heart pain in my soul
Pain in my mind
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depression is when you hate everyone around
depression is when you don't want to make a sound
depression is when all you want to do is cry
depression is when you feel like you’re dying inside
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it must be a good mask
the one she hides behind
for no one sees her
not the real her
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Death's song plays in tune,
in tune with lives he holds in his hands.

He plays of loneliness and depression to
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There i stand at the end of highway
Facing the endless bare horizon
That seems to gulp every path and road
Wishing to trace the fortunate means
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Love is the one thing
That keeps our spirits whole
When Sorrow comes a knocking
With hurts that touch our soul
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of course, I may die in the next ten minutes
and I’m ready for that
but what I’m really worried about is
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Depression

Depression depression,
Gets to us all,
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You have an empty feeling that comes from within
You long to share your feelings but no one will listen
You reach out for open arms, but nobody is there
Your tears fall to the ground, but nobody cares
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it is fighting to be set free
the real me is now fighting
clawing at my inside
pulling trying to break the chains
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Laying on the green leaf, left and abandoned
Be a caterpillar, never easy as u thought
Hated, oppressed are common, love is rarely brought
With friends, everywhere is like home, strong without bone
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Frustrated I stood in front
of the God to Pray,
And asked him why lunatics
are increasing day by day.
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Skinned knees
Aching bellies
An Ankle sprain;
Mother, your one kiss was enough
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An excellent piece of modern poems
Full of darkness, chaos and trash
Of war, horror, terror, destruction
Violence, crimes, corruption, oppression
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(One)

When we log into PH we look out for friends
Especially those who have carved new trends
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here i sit, and here i cry
my life has gone down the black hole of deep depression
my life has gone down to hell
so now i lie me, down to die
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It‘s crazy to think one could describe them—
Calling on reason, fantasy, memory, eves and ears—
As though they were all alike any more
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dissolve the life from within me
you crawl inside of my mind
you want everything
you took the little i had left
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Depression,
A 10-letter word,
Easy to utter,
Slithers, oh so easily, down the throat,
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You steal my soul and hide it in the deep
You take my heart away to turn me into a sheep
You come in the night and rape my mind
You peel my imagination like a rind
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So I look back on my life
trying to find a happy moment
to block out the pain
to have something to think about
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We’re sauntering slowly
In the exciting evening
Exchanging a mystical kiss
Soft moonlight avenue bliss;
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the eyes of the light are so blind
blind to reality
blind to the truth
the eyes of darkness see it all
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My dear close favourite friend
I have something I have to send
On to you that I just found
Sent to me last time around
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This haunts my sleep
It burns out smiles, assuaging nothing as it does so.
Feeding my depression and fanning the flames of my heartache.
Can't you tell me that everything will be alright?
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The ambulance men touched her cold
body, lifted it, heavy as iron,
onto the stretcher, tried to close the
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Lucky Saint George
from his knight's saddle
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I am emo
and emo is me
I choose darkness over light
for that is just what I like
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There he was positioned in front of the
reflection and through the eyes he senses
the hint of anger.
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All gone
those dreams of being a child
all gone
those dreams of happiness
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Speak out my dear
Why hath thou in a state of depression?
Speak out my dear
I stand here waiting for thy confession
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- My Gratitude to My Co -Poets-

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I was sad for not sharing the voice
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Take me home
Take me home
Take me home Lord God
Take me home
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'WHY' …she asks, 'do we together now live? '
[[ My wife is/(was?) thinking of ‘leaving me'; IT is TRUE! ]]
To this, her question, what answer shall I now give?
It must be honest and believable ….when I am through.
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Who takes the time to understand
Depression and its woes,
The fears and insecurities
A dying patient knows;
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Many people write
For their true emotions to unravel
Out of depression, angst, spite
But I can’t
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.......It's a depression so deep it finds a way into the Soul,
traveling through every pore of your Heart.
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Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane's
been drinking and has no idea who
this curious Andalusian is, unable
even to speak the language of poetry.
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VISION 2020: COMBINED VISION OF FOUR GENERATIONS

(This is not a poem, but a thought process)
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The rain drums down like red ants,
each bouncing off my window.
The ants are in great pain
and they cry out as they hit
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Drifting out of sight, fading into the night.
Times of frustration and depression.
An uncomfortably disturbing state of mind deriving from the darkness...
Thrown into a state of intense stress and desperation, how can I ease the pain in my aching heart?
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We were put on this earth for many reasons
To enjoy every moment, every hour, every day, every season.
To do the very best that we can do.
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of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,
it lies 'in grandeur and in mass'
beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;
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I just feel so down
I only frown
I have no smile left
Depression is a theft
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Staring at the walls...at the pictures that hang there
each photo...of it all
each step of our relationship..that started, with lust, wanting and care
the last picture that is hung
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Depression is when you hate everyone around
Depression is when you don't want to make a sound
Depression is when all you want to do is cry
Depression is when you feel like your dying inside
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No more laying down
It is time to take a stand
But who is it I am taking a stand to
For I know most of it is my fault
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Life is nothing
But a song
song of sorrows
song of happiness
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Breathe softly, settle down,
Allow anger to subside;
When sadness clouds your innervision,
Imagination runs wild.
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I just don't know what to do right now
I don't know how to deal with it
all the anger
all the tears
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Fever burns the inner sanctum of the brain,
allowing an enormous strain among
the nerves within. To creep among the
vessels of ceremonious culture,
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The depression of the 1930's was the time of my childhood days,
There were a lot of worries and hardships in many ways.
Whatever time people could spare, they would help each other out,
Bad times also came when there was a draught.
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oh the skein of raggle-taggle village dogs: trickly
tails, stubbly legs, tough teeth fletching at the fence

yours is the street, the dust on an asphalt hem
yours the resonant night in the dormant valley
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The stinging tentacles
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When we write
Poetry
Freedom lives
Depression
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Meathooks, notebooks,
the whole city sky palely flaming
& spectral bombs
hitting that patch of river
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Writing of a poem
Oh! How it can be likened
To having a baby!

With the copulation of fancy and thought,
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So much pain and suffering, for one so young
Often melodies of sorrow, you silently sung
Your hands and feet were endlessly so cold
You told me in closeness, you would never grow old
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Cherish every moment
In your lifetime
Enjoy every detail of it
From it's greatest beauties to a small, meaningless dime
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Little drops of water from the distant past
Ripples rushes and runs into today
Deluge of impotence overflowing
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To all survivors
of natural calamities,
to all sufferers
of man-created disasters,
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I sit alone and ponder,
the cards life has dealt.
The dreams that were dismissed,
for the sake of quelling nightmares.
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In times of travail I was there
In times of depression I stood by you
In times of mock and scorn I shielded you
In times of bitterness I sorrowed with you
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What did I do
that I had to
choose between two loves?
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Hail to thee, O Glorious dawn!
Lady of the Light thou art
daughter of the Sky.
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Every day, Vincent went out into the fields,
With his paintings, brushes and accessories,
Accompanied by Kay and her son Jan.
The family looked on them with approval.
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Depression is being lonely in a room full of people
Depression is being constantly tired but never able to sleep
Depression is longing to be with others yet not being able to cope with company
Depression makes you lose your appetite and eat yourself fat
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all of this pain
all of the emotions
I don; t show
there locked down
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A poem
To me a ray of hope
Where more likely than not
None shall shine
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a wonderful emotion
a thing everyone needs to find
a thing I never felt until now
something I will fight not to lose
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I LOVE thee, mournful, sober-suited Night!
When the faint moon, yet lingering in her wane,
And veil'd in clouds, with pale uncertain light
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to her it is just another night
another sleepless night
another break down
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Janice worked 9-5 as her boss's secretary.
At work she was sedate. But her evenings could be scary.
You see, Janice lived a bit on the ‘wild side',
something which, from her coworkers, she did hide.
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Depression is my life without you,
Depression is the darkness taking over the light,
Depression is the thoughts of suiside
Depression is islolation from the outside world
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Conceiving a dream and desire of a woman
But  if it's a result  of a rape or incest
A trauma which she carries  life long
When her purity is robbed off.
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I scream but there's no sound,
I cry but there's no tears,
Is this life,
Or am i isolated with emotion.
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There was thunder in the hut
teeth clattered under the ground.
Handcuffed you walk in inequality
to qualify for hanging till dead.
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I ask you this
please tell me how
how to fit in
how to make friends
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