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.
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Me? Why me?
I will never understand unconditional love,
and that fact wounds me.
It will always cause me to shake and topple when the idea,
even for a second,
pops into my head,
that someone who has spent so much time with me,
stupid, greedy, worthless, terrible, me,
could still sit down at the end of the day,
with the thought,
"Hey, I love that person."
And maybe,
maybe that still means I have growing to do.
I hope there's a day where,
when I see the child in the mirror,
I don't scream ...
and that fact wounds me.
It will always cause me to shake and topple when the idea,
even for a second,
pops into my head,
that someone who has spent so much time with me,
stupid, greedy, worthless, terrible, me,
could still sit down at the end of the day,
with the thought,
"Hey, I love that person."
And maybe,
maybe that still means I have growing to do.
I hope there's a day where,
when I see the child in the mirror,
I don't scream ...
#sadness
#loneliness
#forgiveness
#despair
#emotions
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And we march on.
We can never go back.
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#despair
#acceptance
#denial #bittersweet
#denial #bittersweet
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Drunk Confession
Waiting for this last
I’m hanging onto you
Counting stars
Hoping somehow
We didn’t fall apart
Checking every universe
Wondering if I ever fit the part
Don’t leave me behind
Gods, know I’m trying
To fit every piece
As if I’m needed
Tell me I’m not lost
Tell me my name
I’ve forgotten it
For yours
I think about
Us ever night
Wondering if
We’d have made it
In another life
I wonder
If I’ll bear your scars
I wonder
If that’s all I can do
Because I’m the one who
Is...
I’m hanging onto you
Counting stars
Hoping somehow
We didn’t fall apart
Checking every universe
Wondering if I ever fit the part
Don’t leave me behind
Gods, know I’m trying
To fit every piece
As if I’m needed
Tell me I’m not lost
Tell me my name
I’ve forgotten it
For yours
I think about
Us ever night
Wondering if
We’d have made it
In another life
I wonder
If I’ll bear your scars
I wonder
If that’s all I can do
Because I’m the one who
Is...
#sadness
#love
#dark
#lover
#despair
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Hurt People f**k Hurt People
I read that line
In a brilliantly crafted poem
Of love, loss and desolation
And realized
I have exhausted all hopes
Of ever understanding
How I’m going to fix
What will forever remain broken
Because I’m soul tied to you
In a brilliantly crafted poem
Of love, loss and desolation
And realized
I have exhausted all hopes
Of ever understanding
How I’m going to fix
What will forever remain broken
Because I’m soul tied to you
#love
#heartbroken
#despair
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Former lover
As winter finally loosens its grasp, melancholy overtakes me. No longer can I hide the kisses left all along my skin, by my longest-held lover. A lover not found in pictures or phone calls, a beloved known only by old friend. seldom if at all spoken about locked away beneath me as I slumber. the cruelest romance take take take yet seldom give, cold and lifeless like my ex yet somehow more loving. kisses ( scars ) litter my body deeper and deeper they go, but alas never enough more more he says. an insatiable beast savoring for more crimson and pain. the longer I go without him the more...
#anger
#anxiety
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
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Ode To Misery
I’m a stone in a world of flowers
the curious call of moors,
the old crow language
of wings circling
their ancient dead
peat bodies rotting beneath the weight
of seventies murder. The swaying
New Romantics surrendering to the dark.
I am grey beaches in homeless overcoats,
banshees of Tudor shipwrecks
shaking bone rattles in violent storms.
I am poverty
and steel
and recklessness
an IRA wound on a city wall; coal crowns
of Thatcherite rule haloing unforgiving
stomachs of shoeless...
the curious call of moors,
the old crow language
of wings circling
their ancient dead
peat bodies rotting beneath the weight
of seventies murder. The swaying
New Romantics surrendering to the dark.
I am grey beaches in homeless overcoats,
banshees of Tudor shipwrecks
shaking bone rattles in violent storms.
I am poverty
and steel
and recklessness
an IRA wound on a city wall; coal crowns
of Thatcherite rule haloing unforgiving
stomachs of shoeless...
#grief
#LifeStruggles
#ghosts
#despair
#Britain
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Black Smoke
Black smoke rising to the sky
grains of sand into my eye
nothing left here for you to see
dust and bones what used to be
grains of sand into my eye
nothing left here for you to see
dust and bones what used to be
#grief
#despair
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The Prayer
#sadness
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#despair
#prayer
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A broken system
Broken families.. dark days
Traumatic experience.. delayed response
Underfunded services.. no help today
Who do you turn to on these dark days
Lost lives.. quiet cries
Murmurs abound.. silent sounds
No money, no gains
You’re out of options
Times are hard.. in or out of court
Everyone’s trying to survive
You’re not important.. just a number on a list
Pressures are mounting
Details disclosed.. confidence breached
Hushed accusations.. walking on eggshells
Disassociate from the situation ...
Traumatic experience.. delayed response
Underfunded services.. no help today
Who do you turn to on these dark days
Lost lives.. quiet cries
Murmurs abound.. silent sounds
No money, no gains
You’re out of options
Times are hard.. in or out of court
Everyone’s trying to survive
You’re not important.. just a number on a list
Pressures are mounting
Details disclosed.. confidence breached
Hushed accusations.. walking on eggshells
Disassociate from the situation ...
#frustration
#despair
#disappointment
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In My Prime
#abuse
#despair
#emptiness #temptation
#emptiness #temptation
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Thought
Heart laden with hope,
Free from care?
You may then hear it
Whisper: ‘Dare’
Discontent with joy,
Too good to bear?
Heed then the urge:
‘Compare’
Free from care?
You may then hear it
Whisper: ‘Dare’
Discontent with joy,
Too good to bear?
Heed then the urge:
‘Compare’
#happiness
#sadness
#hope #despair
#hope #despair
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tristesse
Tristesse
I saw an old man
he wore a sailor cap
sat on a bench
near the town's lake
he cried
not understanding
why, he was no longer
young
and a mariner
of the seven seas
I saw an old man
he wore a sailor cap
sat on a bench
near the town's lake
he cried
not understanding
why, he was no longer
young
and a mariner
of the seven seas
#anger
#confusion
#despair
#apathy
#bittersweet
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DU Poetry : Poems about Despair and Hopelessness