Poems about Despair and Hopelessness
#despair
Poems about despair and hopelessness, poetry about when all hope has been abandoned. Poems about despair due to challenges in life, difficult relationship situations and grief. Emotional poems about losing hope.
Kandicejohnson
Poem Published
Today 2:25am
Today 2:25am
The Awaited Day
The day
I've been waiting
For has finally
Arrived
I lay there
On the floor
With the bloody knife
Gasping for air
Clinging to my last breath
Deaths hand
Reaches for me
Whispering
"You done your best.
Come now. It's time leave with me".
My life was hopeless
I wanted to flee
Throwing myself
Away into the arms
Of death
For eternity
Was my answer
I thought
It seemed
I closed my eyes
Wondering where I belong
Questioning myself
'Is this what
I really wanted...
I've been waiting
For has finally
Arrived
I lay there
On the floor
With the bloody knife
Gasping for air
Clinging to my last breath
Deaths hand
Reaches for me
Whispering
"You done your best.
Come now. It's time leave with me".
My life was hopeless
I wanted to flee
Throwing myself
Away into the arms
Of death
For eternity
Was my answer
I thought
It seemed
I closed my eyes
Wondering where I belong
Questioning myself
'Is this what
I really wanted...
#death
#suicide
#despair #suffering
#despair #suffering
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fieryangelsouljia
MorriganFey
MorriganFey
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:35pm
Yesterday 11:35pm
a Grave Fit For a Queen of Nothing
You could sit next to me
and never once hear me
scream
We could spend a thousand nights
tangled in each other's arms
and you'll never once see me
bleed
You could ask me if I'm okay
but you'll never know my pain..
I thought that if I carved it out,
the piece of me that kept me warm
I wouldn't desire anything beyond
the cold of this hell I told myself
would become my home
But all I long for now
is the warmth
of a genuine
embrace
the sweeter side of you ...
and never once hear me
scream
We could spend a thousand nights
tangled in each other's arms
and you'll never once see me
bleed
You could ask me if I'm okay
but you'll never know my pain..
I thought that if I carved it out,
the piece of me that kept me warm
I wouldn't desire anything beyond
the cold of this hell I told myself
would become my home
But all I long for now
is the warmth
of a genuine
embrace
the sweeter side of you ...
#despair
#suffering
#emptiness #hurt
#emptiness #hurt
24 reads
2 Comments
Nocturnalbutterfly
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:16am
Yesterday 4:16am
Bang
Don't leave me alone with my thoughts!
All I want to do is sleep.
A million voices screaming at me!
Silence they will not keep.
All they do is yell and shout!
Why must they remind me
Of all the worry, pain and doubt?
The sound is overwhelming
I can not take it any longer
Every voice is loud and booming
I taste metal.
Here's the answer.
Now the voices will settle.
B-A-N-G
All I want to do is sleep.
A million voices screaming at me!
Silence they will not keep.
All they do is yell and shout!
Why must they remind me
Of all the worry, pain and doubt?
The sound is overwhelming
I can not take it any longer
Every voice is loud and booming
I taste metal.
Here's the answer.
Now the voices will settle.
B-A-N-G
#anger
#anxiety
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
49 reads
5 Comments
MJ-SWIM
M.J S.W.I.M
M.J S.W.I.M
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:43am
Yesterday 3:43am
My First Love
I want you now
I love your voice
Want my hands
On your hips
Meet you there
Sixteen miles
Down the creek
Up a bridge
By the sign
Past the pond
There you are
I'm so fond
I love that blonde
With muddy roots
And your smile
Fuzzy boots
Lazy leggings
Silken shirt
Little spot
On your neck
I love that honey
Of your eyes
I want you then
Still want you now
He shouldn't know
He doesn't know
Want you now
Take me down
Is he mine?
He is mine. ...
I love your voice
Want my hands
On your hips
Meet you there
Sixteen miles
Down the creek
Up a bridge
By the sign
Past the pond
There you are
I'm so fond
I love that blonde
With muddy roots
And your smile
Fuzzy boots
Lazy leggings
Silken shirt
Little spot
On your neck
I love that honey
Of your eyes
I want you then
Still want you now
He shouldn't know
He doesn't know
Want you now
Take me down
Is he mine?
He is mine. ...
#love
#despair
35 reads
1 Comment
Kandicejohnson
Poem Published
13th Sep 2019 9:58am
13th Sep 2019 9:58am
Teetering On The Edge Sharp As Razors
Everyday becomes
Darker and darker
As if the sun
Has given up
Finding no more
Reasons to shine
It's light
Leading me Closer
To the edge
Of my breaking point
The grass
Can’t grow
With the toxins
In the air
The environment
Polluted with so
Many lies and hate
Decaying
Everything happy
Beautiful and sweet
About me
Slowly breaking
Me down
Weakening me
To my knees
Unworthy
To breath
Clean air
I see them
Now as I look ...
Darker and darker
As if the sun
Has given up
Finding no more
Reasons to shine
It's light
Leading me Closer
To the edge
Of my breaking point
The grass
Can’t grow
With the toxins
In the air
The environment
Polluted with so
Many lies and hate
Decaying
Everything happy
Beautiful and sweet
About me
Slowly breaking
Me down
Weakening me
To my knees
Unworthy
To breath
Clean air
I see them
Now as I look ...
#anxiety
#depression
#despair
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kilanti
Poem Published
13th Sep 2019 5:10am
13th Sep 2019 5:10am
Prompt: Hungry Fire
For my song writing class I had 90 seconds to go off this prompt. I rather like how it turned out.
Scorched Earth, wheezing and choking. The hungry fire forges through, rapidly spreading like a fever. Emblems shimmer through the air, if not for tragedy, one could marvel in awe. But a ravenous appetite; so grim, so ghostly. Whistles escape the moisture withering into thick air. Screaming mother, she cannot protect her young. We taste the salt of her ash & tears in the winds blowing over town.
Scorched Earth, wheezing and choking. The hungry fire forges through, rapidly spreading like a fever. Emblems shimmer through the air, if not for tragedy, one could marvel in awe. But a ravenous appetite; so grim, so ghostly. Whistles escape the moisture withering into thick air. Screaming mother, she cannot protect her young. We taste the salt of her ash & tears in the winds blowing over town.
#environment
#fire
#nature
#tragedy
#despair
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1 Comment
ashw
Poem Published
13th Sep 2019 2:06am
13th Sep 2019 2:06am
Precipice
I find myself on uncertain ground
Straddling an impossible horizon
On one side is day, where my consciousness thrives
On the other is night, where fatigue claims its prize
For years, it seems, I have longed for sleep
For a reprieve from wakefulness and the sun's piercing light
But now, as I stand astride this unlikely fission
I fear what awaits within night's unyielding prison
The darkness has beckoned, calling me forth
Even now its sweet siren reigns down on my soul
Oh, to just close my eyes and let my thoughts be...
Straddling an impossible horizon
On one side is day, where my consciousness thrives
On the other is night, where fatigue claims its prize
For years, it seems, I have longed for sleep
For a reprieve from wakefulness and the sun's piercing light
But now, as I stand astride this unlikely fission
I fear what awaits within night's unyielding prison
The darkness has beckoned, calling me forth
Even now its sweet siren reigns down on my soul
Oh, to just close my eyes and let my thoughts be...
#depression
#loneliness
#night
#despair
#emptiness
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dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
11th Sep 2019 6:08pm
11th Sep 2019 6:08pm
Pastrami, If Not Salami....A Guide To Failed Heart Fatigue In Human Look-Alikes
Exhausting.
A regular day in someone else's pairAdice (snake eyes!),
that wouldn't've been given that "second thought"
a few little years ago. (Or, maybe not even a first
thought if it occurred before your Leah died).
Seems every fucking slightest move....
Exhausting.
Them soul cooties is all outta whack, providing a most discomfiting,
enduring, unflagging weariness, unimaginable in it's scope
and context, to the average liver of...
A regular day in someone else's pairAdice (snake eyes!),
that wouldn't've been given that "second thought"
a few little years ago. (Or, maybe not even a first
thought if it occurred before your Leah died).
Seems every fucking slightest move....
Exhausting.
Them soul cooties is all outta whack, providing a most discomfiting,
enduring, unflagging weariness, unimaginable in it's scope
and context, to the average liver of...
#happiness
#sadness
#hope
#rejection
#despair
63 reads
6 Comments
Heart_symphony
Poem Published
11th Sep 2019 8:55am
11th Sep 2019 8:55am
I tried to love you, to love myself
You’re everything
I hate in the world
But when I felt
Your personality drip
Against my lips
Suddenly, I was dying of thirst
You’re everything
I hate in myself
The world seems
Cold and empty
There’s pain everywhere
It lingers on everything
I hear your smooth voice
In my head
Telling me that
You wish I was dead
I never want to
Open my eyes
I tired to love you
To love the world
And myself
To turn the dark into light
My love drowned ...
I hate in the world
But when I felt
Your personality drip
Against my lips
Suddenly, I was dying of thirst
You’re everything
I hate in myself
The world seems
Cold and empty
There’s pain everywhere
It lingers on everything
I hear your smooth voice
In my head
Telling me that
You wish I was dead
I never want to
Open my eyes
I tired to love you
To love the world
And myself
To turn the dark into light
My love drowned ...
#breakup
#abuse
#despair
#suffering
#hurt
51 reads
1 Comment
Jiminex
Poem Published
10th Sep 2019 2:22pm
10th Sep 2019 2:22pm
Little dove and the dusty coyote
She eased her way to the river. Only light came from the moon. She looked hard to find that strange man. Her heart fluttered she began to shiver. She could see in his eyes their hearts were in tune. Her temperature went up when he grabbed her hand.
Her dear skin dress fell to the banks. She prepared for the passion she had felt building since they first met. She presses into him her river flood upon that kiss.
In his bashful thoughts all he could say was thanks. Easing into the flow of her river steamy and wet. He asked as he looked will you marry me miss.
Before...
Her dear skin dress fell to the banks. She prepared for the passion she had felt building since they first met. She presses into him her river flood upon that kiss.
In his bashful thoughts all he could say was thanks. Easing into the flow of her river steamy and wet. He asked as he looked will you marry me miss.
Before...
#happiness
#sadness
#anger
#love
#despair
27 reads
3 Comments
Kingmat01
Martin2019
Martin2019
Poem Published
10th Sep 2019 1:50pm
10th Sep 2019 1:50pm
Trapped
Determination written all over her face
Termination is finally between the bond we swore
To stick till infinity
With finality she now rabbles
Tears storm her pretty face
Darkness clouds her angelic nature
She is trapped
Between goodbye and staying
She swore never to leave
Yet swore to not stay
If stray ever became one with me
I had not strayed
But stray held me captive
I had not gone straying
Yet stray entrapped me
Sending...
Termination is finally between the bond we swore
To stick till infinity
With finality she now rabbles
Tears storm her pretty face
Darkness clouds her angelic nature
She is trapped
Between goodbye and staying
She swore never to leave
Yet swore to not stay
If stray ever became one with me
I had not strayed
But stray held me captive
I had not gone straying
Yet stray entrapped me
Sending...
#anger
#heartbroken
#frustration
#respect
#despair
30 reads
2 Comments
Jomamma97
Poem Published
10th Sep 2019 9:40am
10th Sep 2019 9:40am
Blade
#loneliness
#dark
#despair
#disappointment
#emptiness
40 reads
1 Comment
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