PTSD Poems
#PTSD
PTSD poems, poetry about post-traumatic stress disorder, an anxiety disorder caused by experiencing a distressing event, like combat, a natural disaster, a car accident or an assault. PTSD can cause a sufferer to relive the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and they may experience feelings of isolation and guilt. PTSD symptoms are often severe enough to have a significant impact on a person’s day-to-day life.
BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
5th Apr 2021 8:25am
5th Apr 2021 8:25am
25th Birthday
Promises held in a mouth
Thousands of perfectly rounded pieces
Spilling out of those open lips
Waterfalls from sharp teeth
Silent screaming the name
As the hourglass fills
One more cycle around the sun
Happy birthday girl
Thousands of perfectly rounded pieces
Spilling out of those open lips
Waterfalls from sharp teeth
Silent screaming the name
As the hourglass fills
One more cycle around the sun
Happy birthday girl
#confessional
#MentalHealth
#myself #PTSD
#myself #PTSD
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BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
1st Apr 2021 6:03pm
1st Apr 2021 6:03pm
Touch me not
Love me
Dont touch me
Trauma just under the skin
Brushing of fingertips
Muddying the waters
Love me, love me,
oh, please won't you love me
Stay strong in your patience
I can't help the way I am
Please, dont touch me
It's like a fabric that itches
I don't know how to deal with it
There's so much I want to share
But this barrier is high to me
I don't know how to get past
Just please love me and dont touch me
Dont touch me
Trauma just under the skin
Brushing of fingertips
Muddying the waters
Love me, love me,
oh, please won't you love me
Stay strong in your patience
I can't help the way I am
Please, dont touch me
It's like a fabric that itches
I don't know how to deal with it
There's so much I want to share
But this barrier is high to me
I don't know how to get past
Just please love me and dont touch me
#MentalHealth
#misunderstood
#PTSD
#FeelingTrapped
#emotional
26 reads
2 Comments
PoeticMalibu
Kym Grey
Kym Grey
Poem Published
20th Mar 2021 10:45pm
20th Mar 2021 10:45pm
Don't Wait Too Long
This is my story.
It happened on October 7,2017.
3 years ago, in the the month of October
3 weeks before my 18th birthday
one bad night.
it chases me around in the shadows
I was raped
between the hours of 6pm and 8pm
one hour
not three
it felt like two
I was dating this amazing guy
and to this day
I still can remember
his exact words
his exact tone
his hurt
everything
"I couldn't protect you."
I stayed in my room
in the dark
for 3 days
I came out of my room on a Monday...
It happened on October 7,2017.
3 years ago, in the the month of October
3 weeks before my 18th birthday
one bad night.
it chases me around in the shadows
I was raped
between the hours of 6pm and 8pm
one hour
not three
it felt like two
I was dating this amazing guy
and to this day
I still can remember
his exact words
his exact tone
his hurt
everything
"I couldn't protect you."
I stayed in my room
in the dark
for 3 days
I came out of my room on a Monday...
#anxiety
#abuse
#SelfHarm
#PTSD
#healing
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u53l355
Poem Published
5th Mar 2021 3:19pm
5th Mar 2021 3:19pm
I know I have lost
The markings of a familiar face left embedded in my brain
It's been years since I had seen her red eyes and tears of pain
She left me with permanent scaring in not only my flesh but scratchings etched inside me as I opened up to her and came out of hiding . I thought I had escaped this abuse but the flash memories will never go away .
It's like a photo taken with a timer but the smile was much wider as you waited for what seems like an eternal 10seconds , the photo that's taken must be mistaken as my smile is replaced with a frown .
I didn't care about the money I...
It's been years since I had seen her red eyes and tears of pain
She left me with permanent scaring in not only my flesh but scratchings etched inside me as I opened up to her and came out of hiding . I thought I had escaped this abuse but the flash memories will never go away .
It's like a photo taken with a timer but the smile was much wider as you waited for what seems like an eternal 10seconds , the photo that's taken must be mistaken as my smile is replaced with a frown .
I didn't care about the money I...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness
#insomnia
#PTSD
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the_Zeus100
Poem Published
4th Mar 2021 3:38am
4th Mar 2021 3:38am
Ice Cream
As I walked home from school, I couldn’t help but grin with joy, at the A+ I had gotten on my addition test. I had gotten the best grade in my 1st grade class. Mama will be so excited to hear about this, I thought. I was about halfway home when I noticed a car had driven up next to me on the road. The window went down and I saw that it was Mr. McGregor. He was an older fellow, but he was the nicest man in the neighborhood. He always said hello to people when he was walking around in the neighborhood, and was generally just very nice. “Hello Samantha, your mom told me to bring you home today,”...
#men
#LifeStruggles
#PTSD
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BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
22nd Feb 2021 11:02am
22nd Feb 2021 11:02am
Bloody Blue Kaleidoscope
Oh hello to this time once again
Is it very late or very early?
Who knows when it's almost 3 am
Laying here listening to these songs
I haven't heard in so very long
Just trying to grapple my emotions back
They're leaking out through my cracks
And oh god, there's so many cracks now
Feeling like my body has doubled its prison quality
My mind keeps throwing up my memories
Playing them like broken movie clips
Black and white, so full of static you can barely watch
My mind cant stand this present horror
Wishing to go back to when it...
Is it very late or very early?
Who knows when it's almost 3 am
Laying here listening to these songs
I haven't heard in so very long
Just trying to grapple my emotions back
They're leaking out through my cracks
And oh god, there's so many cracks now
Feeling like my body has doubled its prison quality
My mind keeps throwing up my memories
Playing them like broken movie clips
Black and white, so full of static you can barely watch
My mind cant stand this present horror
Wishing to go back to when it...
#sadness
#depression
#conflict
#illness
#PTSD
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4 Comments
dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
16th Feb 2021 8:43pm
16th Feb 2021 8:43pm
New Miscellany for the Queen
That little, wicked pleasantry we had a while ago,,,,
where did they
go?
~ Assuming somewhere
they went........~
Here's a pocketful
of wanderers,
looking to wander no
more,
hoping you'd be
kind enough to
take them as they
are. Will tomorrow
be time enough to
...
where did they
go?
~ Assuming somewhere
they went........~
Here's a pocketful
of wanderers,
looking to wander no
more,
hoping you'd be
kind enough to
take them as they
are. Will tomorrow
be time enough to
...
#anxiety
#PTSD
#nightmares #fear
#nightmares #fear
62 reads
5 Comments
Thedeadinme
Poem Published
16th Feb 2021 5:52am
16th Feb 2021 5:52am
Tomorrow's Fetus
Tomorrow's fetus dies in the womb of todays dispair and in my rage I destroy yesterday
Life's neglect forcefeeds unkind thoughts down my throat yet still I starve and beg for more
This blade caresses my flesh,
the only contact that I long to feel so I kiss this blade and begin to mutilate
Like lambs to the slaughter so are my wrists a bitter sacrifice in which selfendulgance is my addiction
The blood flows like rivers
and flood this life with red pain, a colour so pure suicide could never whitewash away
Life's neglect forcefeeds unkind thoughts down my throat yet still I starve and beg for more
This blade caresses my flesh,
the only contact that I long to feel so I kiss this blade and begin to mutilate
Like lambs to the slaughter so are my wrists a bitter sacrifice in which selfendulgance is my addiction
The blood flows like rivers
and flood this life with red pain, a colour so pure suicide could never whitewash away
#depression
#SelfHarm
#bipolar
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
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BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
7th Feb 2021 8:42am
7th Feb 2021 8:42am
I wish... I could just stop crying and sleep
As I'm laying here I can't stop the tears
Bruising my eyes trying to get them away
They just keep falling and falling soaking my pillow
I wish people cared and I wish I did too
But I'm laying here wishing it would stop
I keep dreaming that I'm going to end up
Back into the hospital and all alone
Alone with my darkness and machines beeping
I'm scared to close my eyes and see it all again
IVs and cords attached to my body
Feeling like all I do is bother everyone
Trying so hard to bury all my fears
I've been trying so hard to hide it ...
Bruising my eyes trying to get them away
They just keep falling and falling soaking my pillow
I wish people cared and I wish I did too
But I'm laying here wishing it would stop
I keep dreaming that I'm going to end up
Back into the hospital and all alone
Alone with my darkness and machines beeping
I'm scared to close my eyes and see it all again
IVs and cords attached to my body
Feeling like all I do is bother everyone
Trying so hard to bury all my fears
I've been trying so hard to hide it ...
#loneliness
#secrets
#PTSD
#FeelingLost
#fear
72 reads
6 Comments
Lozzamus
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2021 6:52pm
23rd Jan 2021 6:52pm
First Night In A New Place
It is quiet, far too quiet for me. The static stillness of the country gives the impression of time slowing down. I find a beer in the fridge, sit on the sofa bed and drink. I don't want to go to sleep. Sleep frightens me. My recovery from the attack took several years. Surgery. Knee problems from the impact of the bar. Headaches, double vision. I had to surrender my driving licence for a while, and I never played rugby or soccer again.
I slip in to an old jumper and a pair of boxer shorts, and climb into bed, but for much of the night I remain awake, reading but struggling to...
I slip in to an old jumper and a pair of boxer shorts, and climb into bed, but for much of the night I remain awake, reading but struggling to...
#memories
#mystery
#PTSD #suffering
#PTSD #suffering
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Speak2Me
Poem Published
18th Jan 2021 5:46am
18th Jan 2021 5:46am
Wolf #2
And just like that,
I decided to feed my wolf
And she settled down into a corner somewhere
And she slept a deep sleep.
I decided to feed my wolf
And she settled down into a corner somewhere
And she slept a deep sleep.
#anxiety
#depression
#SelfHarm
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
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dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
13th Jan 2021 2:14am
13th Jan 2021 2:14am
All of No Thing (At All).
All i wish to see
when the blazing chariot
swings low for me,
is a redbird on a branch
of a blue coconut tree.
Death can think me silly.
Death can think me out of style.
Death can think whatever he willy.
Death can die / &No Body'll care why.
So let's let death have it's way.
I won't return with much more
to say.
Dead silent.
No Thing.
( Guaranteed.)
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dkzk 1/09/21
when the blazing chariot
swings low for me,
is a redbird on a branch
of a blue coconut tree.
Death can think me silly.
Death can think me out of style.
Death can think whatever he willy.
Death can die / &No Body'll care why.
So let's let death have it's way.
I won't return with much more
to say.
Dead silent.
No Thing.
( Guaranteed.)
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dkzk 1/09/21
#regret
#dark
#death
#funny
#PTSD
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