Poems about Self Harm
#SelfHarm
Poetry about cutting and self harm may contain distressing poems about people battling with self harming behaviour, and the mental disorders which often accompany it.
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
8th Jun 2024 10:56am
8th Jun 2024 10:56am
Chew on this
A woman pours a large bucket of Marshmallow Fluff over herself and her infant child
She and the baby walk into alligator infested waters
The only evidence that was found was a shoe the woman wore that day
Alligators love Marshmallow's
She and the baby walk into alligator infested waters
The only evidence that was found was a shoe the woman wore that day
Alligators love Marshmallow's
#food
#mother
#nature #SelfHarm
#nature #SelfHarm
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gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
6th Jun 2024 1:38pm
6th Jun 2024 1:38pm
The Jaws of Psychosis
The phantom voices are
soundless unsoundness
to the normal world.
With my tongue,
psychosis cracks this lash,
scolding the empty air.
Give one hell,
give another heaven,
but where is my heaven?
Fracture this jawbone -
this jabbering embarrassment
wishing my vacant face!
Raked over hellish coals,
blistering with utterances,
my mind now scorched earth!
Within this jaw-like clench
of a tongueless entity,
I am surely reviled!
soundless unsoundness
to the normal world.
With my tongue,
psychosis cracks this lash,
scolding the empty air.
Give one hell,
give another heaven,
but where is my heaven?
Fracture this jawbone -
this jabbering embarrassment
wishing my vacant face!
Raked over hellish coals,
blistering with utterances,
my mind now scorched earth!
Within this jaw-like clench
of a tongueless entity,
I am surely reviled!
#anxiety
#depression
#MentalHealth
#SelfHarm
#vulnerability
173 reads
3 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
5th Jun 2024 11:24am
5th Jun 2024 11:24am
PCP
There's a man standing on a bench in a public park
He's pointing at people and laughing and screaming shit at them
The people walk by and don't pay any attention to him
They figure he's just some crazy motherfucker and they should keep the fuck away from him
The man pulls his hat off and starts ripping out large hunks of his hair and eating it
As he screams, hunks of hair mixed with spit fall out of his mouth and stick to his face
He pulls a knife out of his pocket and saws off one of his ears
He eats the ear
A moment later, he does the same to the...
He's pointing at people and laughing and screaming shit at them
The people walk by and don't pay any attention to him
They figure he's just some crazy motherfucker and they should keep the fuck away from him
The man pulls his hat off and starts ripping out large hunks of his hair and eating it
As he screams, hunks of hair mixed with spit fall out of his mouth and stick to his face
He pulls a knife out of his pocket and saws off one of his ears
He eats the ear
A moment later, he does the same to the...
#drugs
#horror
#SelfHarm
#violence
#ShortStory
164 reads
9 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
4th Jun 2024 11:21pm
4th Jun 2024 11:21pm
A Hungry Moron
A man ate his own head
Broke it open with a hammer
Ate the white and grey
Cut his nose, ears and lips off
Ate them too
Punched his teeth down his throat
Swallowed his eyes
Ran out of things to eat
Didn't have the brains to care
Broke it open with a hammer
Ate the white and grey
Cut his nose, ears and lips off
Ate them too
Punched his teeth down his throat
Swallowed his eyes
Ran out of things to eat
Didn't have the brains to care
#food
#horror
#ignorance
#SelfHarm
#SelfReflection
136 reads
3 Comments
dead_lluwi
Poem Published
31st May 2024 10:53am
31st May 2024 10:53am
Do I need help?
#anger
#frustration
#grief
#SelfHarm
#suicide
254 reads
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The_Darkness_Insid
Poem Published
20th May 2024 2:03am
20th May 2024 2:03am
Lay Down Your Guns
Fighting this war for so long
That Ive forgotten what im fighting for
So focused on staying strong
That I don't know who I am anymore
Lay down your guns
A soldier is my identity
Marching into battle as expected
A steadfast intensity
A body count I have collected
Lay down your guns
There is no peace in war
Then what am I fighting for?
Who is keeping score?
Loyal to this oath I swore
Lay down your guns
A final enemy remains across the field
Its either him or me
His...
That Ive forgotten what im fighting for
So focused on staying strong
That I don't know who I am anymore
Lay down your guns
A soldier is my identity
Marching into battle as expected
A steadfast intensity
A body count I have collected
Lay down your guns
There is no peace in war
Then what am I fighting for?
Who is keeping score?
Loyal to this oath I swore
Lay down your guns
A final enemy remains across the field
Its either him or me
His...
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfHarm
#war
279 reads
15 Comments
Fallen_Angel_194
Angel.
Angel.
Poem Published
19th May 2024 4:17am
19th May 2024 4:17am
Loss
I prayed to jesus every Sunday, plucked away every stray eyelash and sent it to the wind; all for the hopes to become beautiful and thin. And as my twelve year old self spent her years carving into her skin, and slipping her fingers down into the hearth of her throat, I wish I could hold her, and love her the way she should've been.
I am much older now, and maybe the years have aged me, aged my mind in ways I never thought it could, and when I think of twelve year old me, alone in my room, Speaking to older men who would never love her, finding solace in between the lips of a...
I am much older now, and maybe the years have aged me, aged my mind in ways I never thought it could, and when I think of twelve year old me, alone in my room, Speaking to older men who would never love her, finding solace in between the lips of a...
#healing
#SelfHarm
#SelfWorth
210 reads
8 Comments
HeWhoIsFractured
Poem Published
18th May 2024 8:27pm
18th May 2024 8:27pm
Coping
I want to retreat into seclusion. The need to just close the door, lock it tight, and stay there is starting to grow. After some time of being on this thought train, I now question if I should just let go and be cold to the world. It would most assuredly hurt some people, maybe a lot in the long run. Most of them my friends. Am I willing to make that decision? Should I be selfish? What if I have regrets about not having those people around?
Some time later…
Being me is difficult. Being self aware makes it worse. Regularly, I think about how much of a burden I can be to...
Some time later…
Being me is difficult. Being self aware makes it worse. Regularly, I think about how much of a burden I can be to...
#friendship
#MentalHealth
#SelfHarm
#SelfReflection
#shame
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PoetSpeak
Poem Published
18th May 2024 5:39pm
18th May 2024 5:39pm
Vampire's Delight
Bite me
Hard
Break the skin
Drink my blood
Lush and lively
Thinned as you like it
Perfect bloody man drink
Shockingly delicious
All night long
Hard
Break the skin
Drink my blood
Lush and lively
Thinned as you like it
Perfect bloody man drink
Shockingly delicious
All night long
#dark
#SelfHarm
#temptation #vampires
#temptation #vampires
280 reads
34 Comments
thoughtsdie
Poem Published
16th May 2024 8:40am
16th May 2024 8:40am
Sighs of Winds
Shadows sliver days
Nightmare contours shades
Only flesh colors the grey
Inside lays graveyards of pain
I’ve decayed to dust
Waiting to bury bodies
Sighs of wind shovel us
Nightmare contours shades
Only flesh colors the grey
Inside lays graveyards of pain
I’ve decayed to dust
Waiting to bury bodies
Sighs of wind shovel us
#apathy
#depression
#emptiness #SelfHarm
#emptiness #SelfHarm
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1 Comment
Nixprty
Poem Published
16th May 2024 2:46am
16th May 2024 2:46am
The Warm Familiarity of Death (And all its Counterparts)
I’ve known death longer than I’ve known life.
It’s all I knew before this world,
It’s all I’ll know after.
Maybe that’s why I feel like this.
Why I breathe deeper,
When there’s blood on my skin.
Why I feel so human,
When I have wounds down my limbs.
Why I feel so alive,
When I have bruises along my ribs.
It’s death beckoning me back,
To the first home I’ve ever known.
It’s all I knew before this world,
It’s all I’ll know after.
Maybe that’s why I feel like this.
Why I breathe deeper,
When there’s blood on my skin.
Why I feel so human,
When I have wounds down my limbs.
Why I feel so alive,
When I have bruises along my ribs.
It’s death beckoning me back,
To the first home I’ve ever known.
#SelfHarm
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nightbirdblue
Poem Published
12th May 2024 3:43pm
12th May 2024 3:43pm
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Grief
At my body
How it’s grown
Aged and wrinkled
Sagging sacks
Of skin hanging
Hunched over
Half alive eyes
Trying to block out
The voices inside
Trying to avoid
Trying to withstand
My judging mind
Words in my head
Scars on my arms
And on the rest of me
Once reminded me
Not to eat
Now I have cellulite legs
Rolls on my back
Stomach’s protruding
Self control I lack
Binge eating
My worries away
Consequences
I now pay
My body...
At my body
How it’s grown
Aged and wrinkled
Sagging sacks
Of skin hanging
Hunched over
Half alive eyes
Trying to block out
The voices inside
Trying to avoid
Trying to withstand
My judging mind
Words in my head
Scars on my arms
And on the rest of me
Once reminded me
Not to eat
Now I have cellulite legs
Rolls on my back
Stomach’s protruding
Self control I lack
Binge eating
My worries away
Consequences
I now pay
My body...
#EatingDisorder
#identity
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#SelfHarm
221 reads
12 Comments
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