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.
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
107 reads
7 Comments
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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InDreamz
Poem Published
13th Apr 2025 5:00pm
13th Apr 2025 5:00pm
fossil
i'm dead inside-
my heart's a corpse-decayed...decomposed;
lovelessness and apathy
bludgeoned my emotions,
withered my psyche.
inundated by sorrow and loneliness,
it seems eternity...
the heat of coldness and indifference,
whilst the pressure to be a diamond
in the wilderness;
crushed me, burdened me
as seasons took their course-
alas! i turned into coal.
i'm a fossil...
...
my heart's a corpse-decayed...decomposed;
lovelessness and apathy
bludgeoned my emotions,
withered my psyche.
inundated by sorrow and loneliness,
it seems eternity...
the heat of coldness and indifference,
whilst the pressure to be a diamond
in the wilderness;
crushed me, burdened me
as seasons took their course-
alas! i turned into coal.
i'm a fossil...
...
#despair
#sadness
#suffering
171 reads
14 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
13th Apr 2025 12:26pm
13th Apr 2025 12:26pm
Dead Like Me
Last night I met up with my soul on a cold dark road
Fed up of me many many years ago
Any idea what it is to be dead like me?
Do you think you'd be able to feel warmth & love when dead?
This morning I cut out my heart
Held it in my hands, wasn't functioning to well anyway
My body is decimated by disease & gloom
So hopeless, so tired, so lifeless
The ghosts I use to see don't scare me anymore
I'm one of them
My soul again departed on that cold dark road
Fed up of me many many years ago
Any idea what it is to be dead like me?
Do you think you'd be able to feel warmth & love when dead?
This morning I cut out my heart
Held it in my hands, wasn't functioning to well anyway
My body is decimated by disease & gloom
So hopeless, so tired, so lifeless
The ghosts I use to see don't scare me anymore
I'm one of them
My soul again departed on that cold dark road
#dark
#despair
#loneliness
#rejection
#suffering
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oskar
Poem Published
13th Apr 2025 12:11pm
13th Apr 2025 12:11pm
the piano tuner
The piano tuner
there used to be a greengrocer on the ground floor
except for potatoes, there was not much call for
another vegetable, the shop closed a piano tuner rented
the space and partly white-washed the windows
he didn't like to be seen by passers-by
I sat on the gate into our yard pretending to be a cowboy
when he asked me to help him in the shop, yes, I was glad
to help got boring being a cowboy
He sat me on a piano stool, opened up my fly, began
playing with my innocent penis, with his right hand he
wanked himself, I...
there used to be a greengrocer on the ground floor
except for potatoes, there was not much call for
another vegetable, the shop closed a piano tuner rented
the space and partly white-washed the windows
he didn't like to be seen by passers-by
I sat on the gate into our yard pretending to be a cowboy
when he asked me to help him in the shop, yes, I was glad
to help got boring being a cowboy
He sat me on a piano stool, opened up my fly, began
playing with my innocent penis, with his right hand he
wanked himself, I...
#anger
#anxiety
#despair
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Liziantus-Marantus
Poem Published
13th Apr 2025 10:59am
13th Apr 2025 10:59am
Still Aflame
I don't know what's about it.
And I don't know how to say this.
I don't know how to tell this.
Or how to explain it.
On one side is a dimlit light.
Strong,powerful firelight.
Near a strong,warm fireplace.
Yet at the same time,something feels cold.
Like a forming disease or mold.
The fire is slowly burning out.
But you can still see it well.
The fire still seems bright.
After everything I tell.
Long ago,a fire burned.
Screeches sounded and peace hurled.
At first,the fire was...
And I don't know how to say this.
I don't know how to tell this.
Or how to explain it.
On one side is a dimlit light.
Strong,powerful firelight.
Near a strong,warm fireplace.
Yet at the same time,something feels cold.
Like a forming disease or mold.
The fire is slowly burning out.
But you can still see it well.
The fire still seems bright.
After everything I tell.
Long ago,a fire burned.
Screeches sounded and peace hurled.
At first,the fire was...
#despair
#hope
#motivational #uplifting
#motivational #uplifting
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dimpy
dimpsmoon
dimpsmoon
Poem Published
10th Apr 2025 4:46pm
10th Apr 2025 4:46pm
apathy
i have not
been buried
but i am
suffocating
i am silent
but the shadow
that used
to hear my scream
has gone away
he was the
only thing
in my words,
but the present
is passing
without him
the one
who used to
explain things
to me when
i was upset,
now doesn't
even think
of talking to me...
been buried
but i am
suffocating
i am silent
but the shadow
that used
to hear my scream
has gone away
he was the
only thing
in my words,
but the present
is passing
without him
the one
who used to
explain things
to me when
i was upset,
now doesn't
even think
of talking to me...
#apathy
#despair
129 reads
6 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
10th Apr 2025 11:37am
10th Apr 2025 11:37am
Not suffering alone (PTSD)
When we are under a heavy load of stress, it will take a more deeper hold upon the mind and soul, sometimes taking you where you've been and gone through this cycle of life. For sure we sometimes, have to reevaluate our own personal thoughts, on a time ⌚ in our lives that the damage has, already been done. Mentally and physically and emotionally, draining us slowly as it begins to take us back in time. When we were in a a foreign country fighting in war zone, fighting in a war zone that is not our war to be fighting for the freedom of it's own people's. YET still there is a down side,...
#despair
#emptiness
#fear
#grief
#suffering
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Liziantus-Marantus
Poem Published
9th Apr 2025 10:57am
9th Apr 2025 10:57am
No Path
I was walking down a grassy path.
The sign told me,go on and you'll escape its wrath.
The sign led me to a path far away.
The people told me,follow it,and your woes will go away.
As I kept walking,flowers grew.
Birds flew and sun is anew.
Yet ,something felt odd about this path.
Was it the right choice?
And did I escape pain and all its wrath?
The flowers were colorful.
And the birds were wild,free.
The rabbits were happy.
But somehow,it wasn't for me.
As I was halfway through that path.
I felt the...
The sign told me,go on and you'll escape its wrath.
The sign led me to a path far away.
The people told me,follow it,and your woes will go away.
As I kept walking,flowers grew.
Birds flew and sun is anew.
Yet ,something felt odd about this path.
Was it the right choice?
And did I escape pain and all its wrath?
The flowers were colorful.
And the birds were wild,free.
The rabbits were happy.
But somehow,it wasn't for me.
As I was halfway through that path.
I felt the...
#dark
#despair
#hope
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missjem56
Poem Published
8th Apr 2025 6:55pm
8th Apr 2025 6:55pm
Broken Silk
Because why, or who
Have all my writings
Gone askew
Tunneled
Unhappy
Lost
All consuming
Soon
An appointment with destiny
Lies lurking
Hovering
Waiting
An re-enactment
In words
Echoes
Of unwanted memories
The past
Re-united with the present
Re-animated
Triggers that haunt
Pirouetting anxieties
As my butterfly wings
Are caught within a whirlwind
Of despair
As i am blown
Towards a spiders web
Then wrapped
In broken silk
by Jemia
Have all my writings
Gone askew
Tunneled
Unhappy
Lost
All consuming
Soon
An appointment with destiny
Lies lurking
Hovering
Waiting
An re-enactment
In words
Echoes
Of unwanted memories
The past
Re-united with the present
Re-animated
Triggers that haunt
Pirouetting anxieties
As my butterfly wings
Are caught within a whirlwind
Of despair
As i am blown
Towards a spiders web
Then wrapped
In broken silk
by Jemia
#anxiety
#despair
#LifeAsAWriter
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