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.
thoughtsdie
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:53pm
Yesterday 9:53pm
Endless Self Torture
It’s that same song again, the one I imagine playing at my funeral.
A funeral I’m late to everyday.
Lying in bed,
I wait for someone to notice the dead body and have it removed.
But no one does because I’m not good enough to be dead yet.
I still breathe and bleed.
I’m still here, like a ghost stuck in a body.
Sometimes I wonder if I possessed this body because my soul was going to hell. That instead I’d rather torture myself and create my own hell.
The truth is what I desire the most is to never have existed.
How can one...
A funeral I’m late to everyday.
Lying in bed,
I wait for someone to notice the dead body and have it removed.
But no one does because I’m not good enough to be dead yet.
I still breathe and bleed.
I’m still here, like a ghost stuck in a body.
Sometimes I wonder if I possessed this body because my soul was going to hell. That instead I’d rather torture myself and create my own hell.
The truth is what I desire the most is to never have existed.
How can one...
#depression
#despair
#emptiness
#StreamOfConsciousness
#suicide
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
Yesterday 10:23am
Yesterday 10:23am
Only then we will have peace
As I sit 🪑 here behind these four walls 🧱 and stare out the window 🪟 of my sanctuary, just as the night skies slowly shift, before the break of a morning dawn, comes over the horizon, I wonder will today, will I have peace. 🤔 For sure now it's more of an statement, then a question ❓ concerning what changes have taken place within the world 🌎 For sure it's getting, to the point that now, it has become a guessing game, of what now 😞 For it's getting to be unbearable, with each day that goes by for sure it's literally has become a war zone...
#despair
#dialogue
#philosophical
#sadness
#StreamOfConsciousness
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:15am
Yesterday 3:15am
The best place to be
It's true that there will come a time ⌚ when somethings, will change in your life when you come across, the road of life filled with nothing else, just a road that has no end. For it's at that point in your life, you have to reevaluate your thoughts and prayers, with your true wants and needs of your, desires of a better life. For sure that is when the time, has come for you to understand that, everything must change from your past, as you look forward to seeing your true future dreams, leaving behind your past heading to the your ultimate DREAMS. For sure now that you are in an, place...
#despair
#FeelingTrapped
#grief
#LifeStruggles
#suffering
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brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:28am
Yesterday 1:28am
April 28
Get your puny orange paws away from our stuff!
Our elbows are up and we’ve heard quite enough.
Quit dragging us down – we won’t be your chattel
as your sad experiment breathes its death rattle.
I feel for the good people trapped in your hell,
and even the ones who got caught in your spell.
But I have no power to fix what you’ve busted –
we used to be friends; now you can’t be trusted.
Greed and ineptitude make a poor ruler.
Won’t somebody do something??
Bueller?
Bueller…?
...
Our elbows are up and we’ve heard quite enough.
Quit dragging us down – we won’t be your chattel
as your sad experiment breathes its death rattle.
I feel for the good people trapped in your hell,
and even the ones who got caught in your spell.
But I have no power to fix what you’ve busted –
we used to be friends; now you can’t be trusted.
Greed and ineptitude make a poor ruler.
Won’t somebody do something??
Bueller?
Bueller…?
...
#anger
#despair
#politics
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PAR
Poem Published
28th Apr 2025 11:32am
28th Apr 2025 11:32am
Last shot!
Would I, would I, would I,
could I, should I?
Could I, could I, could I,
should I, would I?
Should I, should I, should I,
would I, could I?
At that age and after so much time.
In this place and after so much.
For so little or almost nothing!
could I, should I?
Could I, could I, could I,
should I, would I?
Should I, should I, should I,
would I, could I?
At that age and after so much time.
In this place and after so much.
For so little or almost nothing!
#anger
#despair
#rain
#storm
#wind
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TellyLace88
I_Am_Her
I_Am_Her
Poem Published
25th Apr 2025 2:07pm
25th Apr 2025 2:07pm
Only Her
Im sick with knowing that its been me
I am the one who has brought this woman to her knees
Who has stripped all happiness from her eyes
Who offered this body up on a platter
to vicious men who didnt know how to even love themselves
much less care enough to handle her gently
And it was love
All along it was always love that she was in pursuit after
Forever searching losing pieces of herself along the way
willing to sacrifice her very damn soul to find
But she never did
In dark empty and silent rooms she would find herself
begging the...
I am the one who has brought this woman to her knees
Who has stripped all happiness from her eyes
Who offered this body up on a platter
to vicious men who didnt know how to even love themselves
much less care enough to handle her gently
And it was love
All along it was always love that she was in pursuit after
Forever searching losing pieces of herself along the way
willing to sacrifice her very damn soul to find
But she never did
In dark empty and silent rooms she would find herself
begging the...
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
#grief
#heartbroken
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oskar
Poem Published
24th Apr 2025 8:09am
24th Apr 2025 8:09am
idyllic nightmare
Idyllic nightmare
I know they are good people who want us to leave
they don't know it is their time, what's up because
our time is fine, but they fail to grasp that they
are past the clock, it has belled twice
We have admired their garden with flowers
deep green lawn and made of plastic as are
the red roses, nothing is alive, but we pretend
like them, that they are not dead
We failed to ask the obvious question. Why are
we are here? Did they invite us? Or did we show up
in a world that has died, what we see is us who
exists...
I know they are good people who want us to leave
they don't know it is their time, what's up because
our time is fine, but they fail to grasp that they
are past the clock, it has belled twice
We have admired their garden with flowers
deep green lawn and made of plastic as are
the red roses, nothing is alive, but we pretend
like them, that they are not dead
We failed to ask the obvious question. Why are
we are here? Did they invite us? Or did we show up
in a world that has died, what we see is us who
exists...
#anxiety
#apathy
#confusion #despair
#confusion #despair
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Glaxian
Poem Published
20th Apr 2025 2:00pm
20th Apr 2025 2:00pm
Standard Timekeeping
Standard Timekeeping
There's a place of tranquility and pain;
Drenched in the downpour, reading the rain.
Life is darkness to the armor-less knight,
Destined to live with what's on her back
Forever guilty and all is right!
Desire-less to find another track.
Peaceful anguish is not subject to change.
The streets can be justice for the strange!
Meaningless suffering top off the night.
Why even try, there is no way back.
Into the doom, turning left nor right,
Like a freight train rumbling down the track.
Public...
There's a place of tranquility and pain;
Drenched in the downpour, reading the rain.
Life is darkness to the armor-less knight,
Destined to live with what's on her back
Forever guilty and all is right!
Desire-less to find another track.
Peaceful anguish is not subject to change.
The streets can be justice for the strange!
Meaningless suffering top off the night.
Why even try, there is no way back.
Into the doom, turning left nor right,
Like a freight train rumbling down the track.
Public...
#apathy
#despair
#emptiness
#grief
#rejection
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
18th Apr 2025 5:39pm
18th Apr 2025 5:39pm
Take a chance
Let's take a moment to analyze what has been happening, in our lives that it seems that there is something, that we need to be honest with each other and come, to a understanding and about what we use to hold so true. For it's true that I thought in you that, I found a blessing in disguise, but yet it's far from the deepness of the truth. For sure I decided to take a chance, with a leap of faith and believing, that you were for me as I was for you. 🤨 But you didn't know what love really means to me, but yet you ignore that I love you with all my heart and soul. Now you stand there...
#despair
#grief
#hurt
#LifeStruggles
#suffering
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Hatful-of-Hollow
Poem Published
17th Apr 2025 11:36am
17th Apr 2025 11:36am
Known Displeasures (collab with Casted_Runes)
Sun-bleached English terraces cry out.
Remember when you were fifteen,
and stopped at your mate’s,
and met his mum, and saw the years
lining her face, the bedrooms packed with junk.
The playing fields outside, to which
you couldn’t go at night, and where
the children’s park was known...
as offices for drug dealers. The Joy Division,
it could be called. Thus out of death
and Macclesfield you came to me in my despair,
and in your broken dance and voice an air
blew in, of dark ironic prophecy,
to tear, like love, my...
Remember when you were fifteen,
and stopped at your mate’s,
and met his mum, and saw the years
lining her face, the bedrooms packed with junk.
The playing fields outside, to which
you couldn’t go at night, and where
the children’s park was known...
as offices for drug dealers. The Joy Division,
it could be called. Thus out of death
and Macclesfield you came to me in my despair,
and in your broken dance and voice an air
blew in, of dark ironic prophecy,
to tear, like love, my...
#despair
#music
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brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
16th Apr 2025 6:47pm
16th Apr 2025 6:47pm
A Day in the Life
I read the news today – oh boy
They “put the ass in astronaut”.
Bald villain’s pointless promo ploy –
fake feminism – greed is hot.
Distraction from the bad and worse
(I read the news today – oh boy)
With every article I curse
the evil forces that destroy.
With lies and trickery employed
they keep the masses meek with fear.
I read the news today – oh boy!
Keep quiet or you’ll disappear.
And still I sit with pen, in vain;
I want to write of peace and joy
But then I derail my own train – ...
They “put the ass in astronaut”.
Bald villain’s pointless promo ploy –
fake feminism – greed is hot.
Distraction from the bad and worse
(I read the news today – oh boy)
With every article I curse
the evil forces that destroy.
With lies and trickery employed
they keep the masses meek with fear.
I read the news today – oh boy!
Keep quiet or you’ll disappear.
And still I sit with pen, in vain;
I want to write of peace and joy
But then I derail my own train – ...
#consumerism
#despair
#freedom #greed
#freedom #greed
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ChloesPoeticInk
Poem Published
14th Apr 2025 4:59am
14th Apr 2025 4:59am
BRIDGES
I can almost understand why people leap from bridges,
Why they stand there, hearts heavy with fissures.
In a world that screams and shouts,
Yet never hears the whispers of despair that drown out.
The weight of silence is a killer,
A noose that tightens, makes the soul a thriller.
On the edge, they see it all:
The shattered dreams, the pain that stands so tall.
What’s it like to feel so hollow,
To search for hope in darkness, but only find sorrow?
They look down at the water, reflecting a void,
Each ripple a...
Why they stand there, hearts heavy with fissures.
In a world that screams and shouts,
Yet never hears the whispers of despair that drown out.
The weight of silence is a killer,
A noose that tightens, makes the soul a thriller.
On the edge, they see it all:
The shattered dreams, the pain that stands so tall.
What’s it like to feel so hollow,
To search for hope in darkness, but only find sorrow?
They look down at the water, reflecting a void,
Each ripple a...
#anxiety
#despair
#disappointment
#emptiness
#loneliness
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