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.
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
21st Feb 2025 11:14pm
21st Feb 2025 11:14pm
my brain is like a broken carnival ride
I told myself I'd stop writing angsty shit
because I'm so tired of this
misery-go-round in my head
Another day, another mental wall
and I'm stuck staring at the
nothingness I feel
without any solutions
on how to get around it
over it or under it
I need more than this
barren horizon of emptiness
that promises something
but delivers nothing
I told myself I'd stop writing angsty shit
because I'm so tired of this
misery-go-round in my head
but here I am again
breaking promises...
because I'm so tired of this
misery-go-round in my head
Another day, another mental wall
and I'm stuck staring at the
nothingness I feel
without any solutions
on how to get around it
over it or under it
I need more than this
barren horizon of emptiness
that promises something
but delivers nothing
I told myself I'd stop writing angsty shit
because I'm so tired of this
misery-go-round in my head
but here I am again
breaking promises...
#depression
#despair
#LifeStruggles #MentalHealth
#LifeStruggles #MentalHealth
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missjem56
Poem Published
21st Feb 2025 4:04pm
21st Feb 2025 4:04pm
Hope-Less
A cool wind
Came whistling through
The deep dark woods
Where-in resided
Hope
But hope was trapped
With no escape
In that moment of despair
It felt worthless
An imposter
And no longer
Believed in itself
Yet hadn't realised
How many people
Needed her
So, in a moment of sadness
Gave up on herself
And the world
Was left forever lost
Without her!
by Jemia
Came whistling through
The deep dark woods
Where-in resided
Hope
But hope was trapped
With no escape
In that moment of despair
It felt worthless
An imposter
And no longer
Believed in itself
Yet hadn't realised
How many people
Needed her
So, in a moment of sadness
Gave up on herself
And the world
Was left forever lost
Without her!
by Jemia
#despair
#LifeAsAWriter
#sadness
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oskar
Poem Published
20th Feb 2025 1:13pm
20th Feb 2025 1:13pm
writer's block
Writer's block
Today, while trying to write I noticed an ant crossing the opposite wall, for it was a vast expanse watching the ant’s progress, I noticed it stopped circling back like it had found something edible I thought it was disappointed resuming the walk until it disappeared in a crack between wall and ceiling to a hidden society we would never join
Are ants aware of our existence we are there like the day, spilling a drop of beer on the kitchen floor that teenage ants drink, get pissed and told off by their parents never to drink if they do they will be too fat to hide in...
Today, while trying to write I noticed an ant crossing the opposite wall, for it was a vast expanse watching the ant’s progress, I noticed it stopped circling back like it had found something edible I thought it was disappointed resuming the walk until it disappeared in a crack between wall and ceiling to a hidden society we would never join
Are ants aware of our existence we are there like the day, spilling a drop of beer on the kitchen floor that teenage ants drink, get pissed and told off by their parents never to drink if they do they will be too fat to hide in...
#anxiety
#confusion
#denial #despair
#denial #despair
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fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Fia Naturie
Poem Published
19th Feb 2025 8:41pm
19th Feb 2025 8:41pm
Mamas Don't
Text
Mama, please don’t leave
Daddy is having a hard time.
He said he can’t look at me
He cries all the time
Text
Mamas don’t usually go
You left me here, just me
Daddy is so angry
I just don’t understand this though
Text
Mama, Why don’t you come home?
Daddy has been gone
He leaves me here a lot on my own
I didn’t ask to be alone
Mama's Text
Baby girl, I’m sorry to say
I didn’t want to tell you when I left that day
I set your...
Mama, please don’t leave
Daddy is having a hard time.
He said he can’t look at me
He cries all the time
Text
Mamas don’t usually go
You left me here, just me
Daddy is so angry
I just don’t understand this though
Text
Mama, Why don’t you come home?
Daddy has been gone
He leaves me here a lot on my own
I didn’t ask to be alone
Mama's Text
Baby girl, I’m sorry to say
I didn’t want to tell you when I left that day
I set your...
#despair
#grief
#heartbroken
223 reads
24 Comments
Gorotika
Poem Published
19th Feb 2025 7:58pm
19th Feb 2025 7:58pm
dear death
Take me home, I beg of thee.
Take my hand, and set me free.
Dear death, please hear my plea
Release me from this misery.
Take my hand, and set me free.
Dear death, please hear my plea
Release me from this misery.
#dark
#death
#depression
#despair
#FeelingLost
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Nil
Nolan
Nolan
Poem Published
19th Feb 2025 7:19pm
19th Feb 2025 7:19pm
The Draft
Am I there with you in the trenches.
No.
I'm out here in the street getting beaten to a pulp.
So.
Maybe.
You should offer a prayer to the drunks in the alley.
Instead.
Of.
All these pantomime heros cum body bags that glory in death.
At.
Least.
The violence I engage in isn't taken out on the onlookers, in fact, they cheer.
So much.
Less.
Collateral damage when I'm eating the curb and not a bullet.
So.
Potentially.
Don't come to me when you want some sort of violence you...
No.
I'm out here in the street getting beaten to a pulp.
So.
Maybe.
You should offer a prayer to the drunks in the alley.
Instead.
Of.
All these pantomime heros cum body bags that glory in death.
At.
Least.
The violence I engage in isn't taken out on the onlookers, in fact, they cheer.
So much.
Less.
Collateral damage when I'm eating the curb and not a bullet.
So.
Potentially.
Don't come to me when you want some sort of violence you...
#anger
#denial
#despair
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Mstrmnd1923
Poem Published
19th Feb 2025 4:23am
19th Feb 2025 4:23am
And There I Lay
And there I lay on the ground
In a puddle of blood my body drowned
Echoing thoughts that ricochet
My lifeless body now on display
The smoking gun still in my palm
A fleeting moment of peace and calm
But then suddenly shadows appeared
My peaceful thoughts disappeared
Demonic ravenous vultures biting
My motionless body no longer fighting
Dragging my carcass across the floor
My soul now exiting heavens door
Paying for sins of my haunted past
Dreams of hell now permanently last ...
In a puddle of blood my body drowned
Echoing thoughts that ricochet
My lifeless body now on display
The smoking gun still in my palm
A fleeting moment of peace and calm
But then suddenly shadows appeared
My peaceful thoughts disappeared
Demonic ravenous vultures biting
My motionless body no longer fighting
Dragging my carcass across the floor
My soul now exiting heavens door
Paying for sins of my haunted past
Dreams of hell now permanently last ...
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
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Johnny_Silver
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 10:57pm
18th Feb 2025 10:57pm
Beyond Repair
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down the rabbit hole of despair
Tell me, are you there?
Tell me, are you there?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down in a world so unfair
Am I beyond repair?
Am I beyond repair?
Walking in
Swimming out
Can't breath underwater
Sinking deeper
Embrace the reaper
Can't you see I'm going under?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
...
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down the rabbit hole of despair
Tell me, are you there?
Tell me, are you there?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
Down in a world so unfair
Am I beyond repair?
Am I beyond repair?
Walking in
Swimming out
Can't breath underwater
Sinking deeper
Embrace the reaper
Can't you see I'm going under?
Fallin',
Fallin',
Fallin',
...
#despair
#loneliness
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 10:30pm
18th Feb 2025 10:30pm
here we go again
You use ideas as weapons
try and make me a villain
in your story
where I'm not
and never have been
the bad guy
You act like boundaries
is a dirty word
when you just want a life
without consequences
I understand that your
flight or flight response
is to turn me into a bitch
so you can be the martyr
but no one is looking
to burn you at the stake
and turning your trauma on me
won't heal the wounds
within either of us
I won't break myself
so you can kill...
try and make me a villain
in your story
where I'm not
and never have been
the bad guy
You act like boundaries
is a dirty word
when you just want a life
without consequences
I understand that your
flight or flight response
is to turn me into a bitch
so you can be the martyr
but no one is looking
to burn you at the stake
and turning your trauma on me
won't heal the wounds
within either of us
I won't break myself
so you can kill...
#addiction
#despair
#DomesticViolence #drugs
#DomesticViolence #drugs
204 reads
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Lilliputian
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 10:22pm
18th Feb 2025 10:22pm
Unwritten On
I watched the rain
dropping down on leaves,
cleansed from dirt,
coated with sheer varnish,
and I wished my sorrows
could be as easily washed away.
I held soap in my hands,
and wondered how many
scrubs I still need
to feel unwritten on
from the stains of memories.
So I went for walks whenever it rained,
to purge my body and soul,
and laved over and over
to undo what had been done.
dropping down on leaves,
cleansed from dirt,
coated with sheer varnish,
and I wished my sorrows
could be as easily washed away.
I held soap in my hands,
and wondered how many
scrubs I still need
to feel unwritten on
from the stains of memories.
So I went for walks whenever it rained,
to purge my body and soul,
and laved over and over
to undo what had been done.
#despair
#hurt
#sadness
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ThePalestRider
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 4:32pm
18th Feb 2025 4:32pm
Emancipation From The Sun
In vaulted night where whispers dwell
A fell being, cloaked in shadowed spell
Drew breath of twilight, dark and deep
Amidst the silence that shadows keep
Beneath the gaze of the sun’s harsh eye
Chained by brilliance, yearning to fly
It cried to the moon in tones of despair
“Grant me release, from this radiant snare!”
“Thy golden rays, they scorch and bind
I seek the solace of the night to find
For in the gloam, my spirit can soar
Awake the dreams that darkness bore.”
Echoes of silence where phantoms tread ...
A fell being, cloaked in shadowed spell
Drew breath of twilight, dark and deep
Amidst the silence that shadows keep
Beneath the gaze of the sun’s harsh eye
Chained by brilliance, yearning to fly
It cried to the moon in tones of despair
“Grant me release, from this radiant snare!”
“Thy golden rays, they scorch and bind
I seek the solace of the night to find
For in the gloam, my spirit can soar
Awake the dreams that darkness bore.”
Echoes of silence where phantoms tread ...
#dark
#despair
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moon_bather
Poem Published
18th Feb 2025 1:54am
18th Feb 2025 1:54am
How Many Times
That bastard sun shines down
Upon my porcelain heart
Ready to break
At any instant
A blackhole once loved
Leaves me defiant
Sinking in this whirlpool
Left deaf by the cuckoo
Always roaring
With that inner voice
The tragedy called life
Leaves a simple choice
Upon my porcelain heart
Ready to break
At any instant
A blackhole once loved
Leaves me defiant
Sinking in this whirlpool
Left deaf by the cuckoo
Always roaring
With that inner voice
The tragedy called life
Leaves a simple choice
#dark
#despair
#FeelingTrapped
#frustration
#LifeStruggles
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