#Depressing poetry

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[vanx-97]

You make me so angry and you make me sad

You’re so concerned about a future you don’t have

Far from what you can achieve, close to a body bag

Some people love seeing life, you love to see it pass

So cloudy and no one can make it clear 

You don’t know what to do with your career

Family talks of fallback plans you don't wanna hear

School graduate drug addict kid who wants to disappear

The friends you had I thought they were great

The friends you hold onto are the ones that I hate

Everything you borrow, nothing you repay

You’d fuck up someone’s week to be high for 1 day

You don’t even try, you just give up on your goals

You dread the day success comes close

I really hope that you don’t overdose

The world didn’t watch you grow just to watch you go

Young adults are all confused, you are not alone

So many stars that collapse into black holes

Some of those people you used to know

I think you should take it slow before you implode

You can’t control everything, you weren’t meant to

I don’t think that the universe hates you

Be yourself and do what you love to do

Take it from someone who had to die to see that life is beautiful

You will struggle, things won’t always work

This dance with death will only make it worse

You want to change, believe in yourself first

Eventually you will find your place on this earth

[greyaugustuspoetry]

Young Blood

It broke through the flood gates

Bite your check and feel that pain

It builds up the damn down the way

Choke it down and shut it up

No one wants to hear your shame

It’s starting to explode?

That sucks just for you

Screw the cap back on right

Or you’ll scare away the view

Cry yourself to sleep little one

It’s the only time you can

And if that doesn’t console you

Go put your head in the sand

No one gives a fuck

Not even god

They made you this way

Didn’t they son?

Get on your knees

And start to scream

Grab at the stars

And see if they bleed

I’m sorry young blood but this is the truth of it all

So shut up and smile

Swallow all those pills

Because it tames the beast and keeps you still

Yeah no one gives a shit

Except for you and you alone

And maybe the man behind that heavy telephone

Don’t let this escape from that black hole

That lives in that malnourished gut

Everything is fine , fine, fine

That’s what you must tell them all

Because no matter if you let this go

There’s no room for it in the space outside your own

Do you think this is a game?

Because it never was to me

Life is a cycle

And we got stuck in it’s spree

There’s no space on that paper anymore

You ran out of pages

From the day you were three

That’s when the monsters started to breath

Get on your knees

And start to confide

In nothing at all

Because you know it’s all a lie

I’m sorry young blood but this is the truth of it all

So shut up and smile

Swallow all those pills

Because it tames the beast and keeps you still

-Grey Augustus

[untitled-bumblebee]

Untitled #27

This isn’t my quote

But it perfectly describes things for me

That hollowness that comes with being

Completely And utterly

Unseen

Parts of me tucked away in the folds of my skin

My desires being braided into my hair

Swallowing the burdens and the fears

No point in pulling them out

They will always be misunderstood

I will always

Be misunderstood

[unabashedlywingedtraveler]

You’ve realised your true potential.

It’s exactly what you had foreseen.

While those guys excel and work wonders.

You can’t even keep yourself clean.

You’re just one more average person.

Nothing you do will prevail.

Shooting your shots at redemption. 

But you already know it will fail.

I get that I’m not like the others.

I see the way you all stare.

Just try to start looking straight through me.

Act like I’m not even there.

I’m tired of trying to do this.

It’s constant mistakes and poor choice.

So when we cross paths, or our lives intertwine.

Don’t even waste your voice.

[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]

[poetic-solitude]

Me? by Grain Woods

Expression is hard

I don't understand it

How can people have opinions

All I've done is follow orders

I've never had ideas

And if I did I ignored them

Then eventually they went away

My mind went blank continuously

A puppet for others

I lost my sense of self

Now I'm trying

Trying to be me

But how do I know

That my ideas are my own

What if I'm still being controlled

By the people around me

What if I'm lying to myself

Manipulating everyone including me

[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

[mishtake1306]

I tried

I tried so hard to be good

Kind

Sweet

But

Everytime

I messed up

As a child does

I felt

Dirty

Ugly

Evil

Like

All that

Had happened

I deserved

No child deserves

To feel

Unwanted

But

Now

Im

Bitter

Resentful

Angry

And I can't

Bring

Myself

To try

-1306

[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.

[vanx-97]

Success has been coming to visit

I don’t think I’m very comfortable with it

What was once a tidbit of horror fiction

Has become so twisted into my existence

I don’t want it’s presence

I asked it to leave and I meant it

It’s so relentless, is it demented?

Is it offended that I don’t want it’s friendship?

Misleading texts and confusing notes

“I’ll meet you there” but I never go

“I’ll make time for you” but it’s always no

“I like you a lot” but I hate them the most

“I want my dreams, I want my goals”

I never wanted either of those

All this when success comes close

All this to sabotage it’s approach

[greyaugustuspoetry]

My demons have resurfaced

And they’ve come back ten fold

I’m so tired from the last battle

It’s getting out of my control

Oh lord hear my screams

That come from the top of my lungs

I need a savior and it can’t be me

Won’t someone help me stay clean?

-Grey Augustus

[untitled-bumblebee]

Untitled #29

I don’t want this

But I can’t stop

The exhaustion is so painful

The headaches and the insomnia

It hurts and I’m tired

I’m tired of not eating

I’m tired of not laughing

I’m tired

But I can’t stop now

I won’t stop now

I won’t

I won’t

I won’t

I won’t

I won’t

[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.