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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Damon
Damon
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:16am
Yesterday 00:16am
TWISTER
Left hand red
Left foot black
Right foot green
Maybe go back?
Right hand red
Right foot white
Left foot blue
Inalienable right?
Right is white?
Wrong is black?
All about the green?
Except those who lack?
Stop on red
Yield on yellow
Go on green
Hearts now hollow?
What's the color of sorrow?
Left foot black
Right foot green
Maybe go back?
Right hand red
Right foot white
Left foot blue
Inalienable right?
Right is white?
Wrong is black?
All about the green?
Except those who lack?
Stop on red
Yield on yellow
Go on green
Hearts now hollow?
What's the color of sorrow?
#LifeStruggles
#America
#Africa
#greed
#despair
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Bumped 30th Jul 2021 4:20pm
2nd Apr 2021 7:52pm
2nd Apr 2021 7:52pm
Milk carton picture
Milk carton picture
Of someone I used to know
A nice girl with a pretty smile
Before she hit her low
Before the wrong crowd
Led her to the slaughter
With deceptive emotions
They held their constrained laughter
What am I saying
It was her choice
I just wish she had the courage
To speak her voice
Or maybe this is what she wanted
To disappear from a world
That showed no compassion
And spit on her pearl
However it went down
I'll miss the person I used to know
Loving, caring and strong...
Of someone I used to know
A nice girl with a pretty smile
Before she hit her low
Before the wrong crowd
Led her to the slaughter
With deceptive emotions
They held their constrained laughter
What am I saying
It was her choice
I just wish she had the courage
To speak her voice
Or maybe this is what she wanted
To disappear from a world
That showed no compassion
And spit on her pearl
However it went down
I'll miss the person I used to know
Loving, caring and strong...
#sadness
#heartbroken
#despair
#emptiness
#bittersweet
131 reads
5 Comments
cloventongue89
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 1:37pm
29th Jul 2021 1:37pm
Blind Beholder
Call me gifted in expression
Yet without change
When words lose their meaning
And confessions are far from noble
Getting back up again
After I've made a liar of myself
In hopes it'll be the last time
Self-control versus chemical reactions
Speaking of freedom
Where does the bondage lie?
No chains to externalize
Just the entrapment of me
Try to quantify and compartmentalize
Ethereal idealization
I want to believe that there is more
But I'm afraid of vows
When I'm better said than lived
When...
Yet without change
When words lose their meaning
And confessions are far from noble
Getting back up again
After I've made a liar of myself
In hopes it'll be the last time
Self-control versus chemical reactions
Speaking of freedom
Where does the bondage lie?
No chains to externalize
Just the entrapment of me
Try to quantify and compartmentalize
Ethereal idealization
I want to believe that there is more
But I'm afraid of vows
When I'm better said than lived
When...
#lust
#confessional
#addiction
#SelfReflection
#despair
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DreamIllusions
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 2:31am
29th Jul 2021 2:31am
The Boneyard
We lay mangled
By some unseen hand
Well, I saw it
I don’t know if you did
Did you see your lion?
I turn my head
I can’t make eye contact
You walk away
Always stronger than I
No one can see what we carry
No one can see what we hold
It is as dark as the darkest night
I know, cliché right?
But really…
Some dark nights offer respite
When the lions don’t come
But some dark nights just let them come
Who’s really in charge?
I can’t raise my arms
I can’t move my legs
So, I surely cannot walk away ...
By some unseen hand
Well, I saw it
I don’t know if you did
Did you see your lion?
I turn my head
I can’t make eye contact
You walk away
Always stronger than I
No one can see what we carry
No one can see what we hold
It is as dark as the darkest night
I know, cliché right?
But really…
Some dark nights offer respite
When the lions don’t come
But some dark nights just let them come
Who’s really in charge?
I can’t raise my arms
I can’t move my legs
So, I surely cannot walk away ...
#secrets
#abuse
#despair
#FeelingLost
#hurt
26 reads
5 Comments
vampirlust
Poem Published
28th Jul 2021 5:35pm
28th Jul 2021 5:35pm
OUR PAIN
What will I do with this broken heart?
By the claws of this world, I am torn apart.
My smile taken from me so long ago.
In its place left a grimacing sickening glow.
A frown that is etched upon my grace.
A sea of Tears fall, erode my face.
Nothing left now just empty space.
What possessed me, that I should die this way?
I reckon its my lot is all I can say.
So I focused on all the Pain that I feel.
Only thing to me that makes life seem real.
My throat is bound with chain and reel.
My loins are pierced with zeal and...
By the claws of this world, I am torn apart.
My smile taken from me so long ago.
In its place left a grimacing sickening glow.
A frown that is etched upon my grace.
A sea of Tears fall, erode my face.
Nothing left now just empty space.
What possessed me, that I should die this way?
I reckon its my lot is all I can say.
So I focused on all the Pain that I feel.
Only thing to me that makes life seem real.
My throat is bound with chain and reel.
My loins are pierced with zeal and...
#LifeStruggles
#despair
#suffering
#emptiness
#bittersweet
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Gentle
Poem Published
28th Jul 2021 1:46pm
28th Jul 2021 1:46pm
DOWN TO THE EARTH
Down to the earth like an open grave,
but with smiles on the face like a quokka,
Who can read the heart through the shining teeth, or see the mind from the glittering lips! If there are tears that ease the pains, let them flow out like the evil stream, And poems that can tell the mind, pour them out like an open tap!
He Passes through the same street again and again, missing just the same steps again and again.
but with smiles on the face like a quokka,
Who can read the heart through the shining teeth, or see the mind from the glittering lips! If there are tears that ease the pains, let them flow out like the evil stream, And poems that can tell the mind, pour them out like an open tap!
He Passes through the same street again and again, missing just the same steps again and again.
#regret
#shame
#despair
#disappointment
#emptiness
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SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
28th Jul 2021 12:40pm
28th Jul 2021 12:40pm
7/28/21
There’s stuff
She will not
Let me tell you
No good
Can come
Of this
ACTING HONORABLY
She will not
Let me tell you
No good
Can come
Of this
ACTING HONORABLY
#despair
16 reads
2 Comments
Dreamboy
Poem Published
27th Jul 2021 10:27pm
27th Jul 2021 10:27pm
Echo Lake
I don’t want to
feel
all alone
anymore
I don’t want to
feel
all alone,
no
no.
Things are getting
lighter,
the sun
is rising,
My eyes
are
shining,
across, across,
the pond.
You’re free
to stay here
until the rain
stops,
of course
of course
of course.
I don’t want to
feel
all alone
anymore.
I dont want to
feel
all alone,
no
no.
I don’t think
I want it
to
feel
normal.
feel
all alone
anymore
I don’t want to
feel
all alone,
no
no.
Things are getting
lighter,
the sun
is rising,
My eyes
are
shining,
across, across,
the pond.
You’re free
to stay here
until the rain
stops,
of course
of course
of course.
I don’t want to
feel
all alone
anymore.
I dont want to
feel
all alone,
no
no.
I don’t think
I want it
to
feel
normal.
#loneliness
#dark
#LifeStruggles #despair
#LifeStruggles #despair
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1 Comment
inechoingsilence
Poem Published
26th Jul 2021 5:34pm
26th Jul 2021 5:34pm
Universe
Human souls contain galaxies
with minds spanning universes
I’m not supposed to know this
or be so keenly aware of the abyss
Greater, stronger minds than mine
have known and felt and shattered
They never come back to earth
Always different and forever alone
with minds spanning universes
I’m not supposed to know this
or be so keenly aware of the abyss
Greater, stronger minds than mine
have known and felt and shattered
They never come back to earth
Always different and forever alone
#sadness
#grief
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
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PoetSpeak
Poem Published
26th Jul 2021 2:01pm
26th Jul 2021 2:01pm
I Want but I Don't Expect ( Tart Lemonade)
Lust is like that
You want them
They can take or leave you
I'm long into this game
Good days sometimes
Bad days too
Tart lemonade
All the promise
Then sour
Onward
You want them
They can take or leave you
I'm long into this game
Good days sometimes
Bad days too
Tart lemonade
All the promise
Then sour
Onward
#lust
#hope
#rejection #despair
#rejection #despair
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14 Comments
doriann_barrere
Dorian
Dorian
Poem Published
26th Jul 2021 11:22am
26th Jul 2021 11:22am
Marión
twas a’ long onceupon, the time in an a’go.
‘innet of a heart the kingdom olden.....inside that nation oldened shadows meets’ the village, have longed gone in a lands then past.
valors meets maid of a Marion, ruffled are her feathers ‘hair... twa a’nne the maiden’s locks orange, innit goldtint’th, blonde manner as poison......nectar of our sunlight, which turns the monochrome glow a spiral.
a saddened Marion, whom was to be a’gone, lost at a’bay, a forgotten shadowmnesià of their ghast the prisonshold, which met as stern of tint, cold air.
breezed through, but a...
‘innet of a heart the kingdom olden.....inside that nation oldened shadows meets’ the village, have longed gone in a lands then past.
valors meets maid of a Marion, ruffled are her feathers ‘hair... twa a’nne the maiden’s locks orange, innit goldtint’th, blonde manner as poison......nectar of our sunlight, which turns the monochrome glow a spiral.
a saddened Marion, whom was to be a’gone, lost at a’bay, a forgotten shadowmnesià of their ghast the prisonshold, which met as stern of tint, cold air.
breezed through, but a...
#sadness
#grief
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#despair
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Erotic_Goddess
Poem Published
24th Jul 2021 11:34pm
24th Jul 2021 11:34pm
Leave You To It
You used to miss me when my arms were out of town.
I could feel you in my dreams brushing my hair from my brow.
The kisses on the forehead eased the torment that consumed demented ornaments on my mind.
I hear you're good for my art when you're burning my skin, hear you took my soul on the road with you...a silent invisible line in the shadows obliviously riding shotgun in place though your heart left me behind.
I have been here since 2,
The bottles empty,
I might be a little drunk....
Memories aren't as fleeting, impossible to be made to drown.. ...
I could feel you in my dreams brushing my hair from my brow.
The kisses on the forehead eased the torment that consumed demented ornaments on my mind.
I hear you're good for my art when you're burning my skin, hear you took my soul on the road with you...a silent invisible line in the shadows obliviously riding shotgun in place though your heart left me behind.
I have been here since 2,
The bottles empty,
I might be a little drunk....
Memories aren't as fleeting, impossible to be made to drown.. ...
#anger
#dark
#frustration
#despair
#emptiness
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