Poems about Suffering
#suffering
Poems about suffering, physical or mental pain. Emotional poems about personal suffering, or those who are suffering in society.
Thetravelingfairy
Poem Published
14th Jul 2020 8:33pm
14th Jul 2020 8:33pm
Sewed a Smile
She sewed a smile
With deceitful thread
Pricked her lips and wove it in
Bled as she began to grin
Tightening the ruby red
With a needle snaking beneath her skin
Tying a bloody double knot
Cut the string
Her smile stretches the aching seams
They might burst
When the smile stops
Ripping the stitches she unbearably fought
With deceitful thread
Pricked her lips and wove it in
Bled as she began to grin
Tightening the ruby red
With a needle snaking beneath her skin
Tying a bloody double knot
Cut the string
Her smile stretches the aching seams
They might burst
When the smile stops
Ripping the stitches she unbearably fought
#dark
#suffering
#hurt #deception
#hurt #deception
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
12th Jul 2020 1:13pm
12th Jul 2020 1:13pm
The Devil's Kingdom
A dream cast a long shadow
Against the old man's eyes
Young again
Running, laughing
Splashing by the brook
With a beautiful girl
The world at their fingertips
Bowed down before them
King and Queen
Of a time they thought
Would not end
Before the war
Invasion unannounced
Unplanned for
Then came guns, bombs
Screaming sirens
Buildings falling like
Wooden toy blocks
Calls for help
Go unanswered
Smoke rises
Swirls up into that
Heavenly loam ...
Against the old man's eyes
Young again
Running, laughing
Splashing by the brook
With a beautiful girl
The world at their fingertips
Bowed down before them
King and Queen
Of a time they thought
Would not end
Before the war
Invasion unannounced
Unplanned for
Then came guns, bombs
Screaming sirens
Buildings falling like
Wooden toy blocks
Calls for help
Go unanswered
Smoke rises
Swirls up into that
Heavenly loam ...
#violence
#war
#death
#tragedy
#suffering
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
11th Jul 2020 2:08pm
11th Jul 2020 2:08pm
Hatred
That nasty little word
Divides countless people, countries...
To the world
It's a drug
We need more of
And when we get it
It's not enough
Hatred will tear us apart
Leaving a gaping hole
Nothing more than bottomless dark
Where we used to have a heart
Born into a world
Diseased
We're all an infection
Parasitic Invaders
Sucking the life from our host
The world cannot sustain
We cannot contain
Our mother is dying
And we're to blame
Divides countless people, countries...
To the world
It's a drug
We need more of
And when we get it
It's not enough
Hatred will tear us apart
Leaving a gaping hole
Nothing more than bottomless dark
Where we used to have a heart
Born into a world
Diseased
We're all an infection
Parasitic Invaders
Sucking the life from our host
The world cannot sustain
We cannot contain
Our mother is dying
And we're to blame
#hate
#lies
#greed
#suffering
#hypocrisy
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Emotional_Esther
Esther...
Esther...
Poem Published
9th Jul 2020 5:20am
9th Jul 2020 5:20am
Silenced
I should have listened when you whispered in my ear
"No one will believe you and you'll disappear"
I can't put away the fact that you touched me and got away with the act
So this is the way it is
I stay silenced and you get praised
I know you for what you really are and yet people still won't listen to my truth
You put your hands on me without my consent
I spill my story and it gets discredited by some lousy excuse of drinks
We both know I had nothing hard to drink
We both know you messed with my soda
Somehow you manged to fuck up...
"No one will believe you and you'll disappear"
I can't put away the fact that you touched me and got away with the act
So this is the way it is
I stay silenced and you get praised
I know you for what you really are and yet people still won't listen to my truth
You put your hands on me without my consent
I spill my story and it gets discredited by some lousy excuse of drinks
We both know I had nothing hard to drink
We both know you messed with my soda
Somehow you manged to fuck up...
#lies
#abuse
#frustration
#ignorance
#suffering
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
8th Jul 2020 11:31pm
8th Jul 2020 11:31pm
Finding Angel
She said goodbye for the final time
All she wanted was to be loved
She won't be there
When they get home tonight
Finding Angel
I saw your smile was gone today
Was there nothing I could do?
You slowly faded from light to gray
Paler than a midnight moon
Finding Angel
We found you in your secret place
Deep in the darkened woods
The only place where you could be safe
And felt like you were good
Finding Angel
The note said you no longer loved
You couldn't take anymore
You...
All she wanted was to be loved
She won't be there
When they get home tonight
Finding Angel
I saw your smile was gone today
Was there nothing I could do?
You slowly faded from light to gray
Paler than a midnight moon
Finding Angel
We found you in your secret place
Deep in the darkened woods
The only place where you could be safe
And felt like you were good
Finding Angel
The note said you no longer loved
You couldn't take anymore
You...
#abuse
#SelfHarm
#suicide
#despair
#suffering
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MyEyeDelight
Poem Published
8th Jul 2020 7:59am
8th Jul 2020 7:59am
Elated/Sedated
To be elated or sedated
That's all she wanted her whole life
Her whole life stood still
It’s all a big game
Stakes are high
It's all or nothing
This time around
No truth|No lie
Just the inevitability
Of ending
Ending whole
Drown me in elation
Cover me up
Make it matter
Make it matter more.
Nothing was ever pristine
Nothing at all was ever pure
Tainted dreams of love and hope
It was...
That's all she wanted her whole life
Her whole life stood still
It’s all a big game
Stakes are high
It's all or nothing
This time around
No truth|No lie
Just the inevitability
Of ending
Ending whole
Drown me in elation
Cover me up
Make it matter
Make it matter more.
Nothing was ever pristine
Nothing at all was ever pure
Tainted dreams of love and hope
It was...
#illness
#suffering
#emptiness
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atkfrostyatk
Poem Published
7th Jul 2020 12:39pm
7th Jul 2020 12:39pm
Walls
I hear voices around me
Their anger and hate surround me
At times it seems they control me
They force their way in so slowly
Sometimes they seem to make sense
They say to cause pain and relieve my stress
If you really listen these walls talk
I can hear them wherever I walk
Everyday they grow louder and speak more truth
With every word it seems I have less to lose
If you can't hear you'd think me insane
But I alone have seen their pain
If you look real close you can see how deep
From the cracks in the walls you can see them...
Their anger and hate surround me
At times it seems they control me
They force their way in so slowly
Sometimes they seem to make sense
They say to cause pain and relieve my stress
If you really listen these walls talk
I can hear them wherever I walk
Everyday they grow louder and speak more truth
With every word it seems I have less to lose
If you can't hear you'd think me insane
But I alone have seen their pain
If you look real close you can see how deep
From the cracks in the walls you can see them...
#depression
#bipolar
#PTSD
#suffering
#FeelingTrapped
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poetOftragedy
Poem Published
7th Jul 2020 5:29am
7th Jul 2020 5:29am
Carousels
His in a bar
Drowning his sorrows in his regrets,
She caught him cheating
And then she decides to leave him.
On his way to her house
Screaming her name all over town
On her porch, on his knees
His screaming out, his shouting "baby please, I'm on my knees"
She lets him in, he apologizes
He admits his a mess
And he needs help,
She lays his heard on her chest
And she forgives him one more time.
A few months down the line
His in a bar
drowning his sorrows in regrets
Round and round they go
I guess...
Drowning his sorrows in his regrets,
She caught him cheating
And then she decides to leave him.
On his way to her house
Screaming her name all over town
On her porch, on his knees
His screaming out, his shouting "baby please, I'm on my knees"
She lets him in, he apologizes
He admits his a mess
And he needs help,
She lays his heard on her chest
And she forgives him one more time.
A few months down the line
His in a bar
drowning his sorrows in regrets
Round and round they go
I guess...
#death
#LifeStruggles
#narrative
#addiction
#suffering
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Sky_dancer
Poem Published
6th Jul 2020 10:16pm
6th Jul 2020 10:16pm
I Drink Pain
the misery you hate
is food for my renunciation
the loss you fear
is my giving
the loneliness you dread
is my meditative solitude
the death you try to avoid
i know intimately
your tragedy
is my compassion
your pain
is my rapture
your chaos
is my transformation
your grasping
is my enlightenment
the black cat my familiar
the ladder my Pythagorean equation
the single mag~pi
my mindfulness
the sting of alertness
your lost opportunity
is my inspirational prayer
...
is food for my renunciation
the loss you fear
is my giving
the loneliness you dread
is my meditative solitude
the death you try to avoid
i know intimately
your tragedy
is my compassion
your pain
is my rapture
your chaos
is my transformation
your grasping
is my enlightenment
the black cat my familiar
the ladder my Pythagorean equation
the single mag~pi
my mindfulness
the sting of alertness
your lost opportunity
is my inspirational prayer
...
#hope
#spiritual
#despair
#suffering
#hurt
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UnDeRcOvErAnGeL
Asguard
Asguard
Poem Published
6th Jul 2020 5:16am
6th Jul 2020 5:16am
Let Go
I know who you are, i know the things you do...
All your secrets and lies, you know I see right through...
I've seen under your mask, your colors shining true...
I've been under your thumb, been under your foot too...
Why can't I let go,
I can only sink so low,
Will I ever tell you no,
You're killing me so slow!
How can I get free,
I'm all alone it seems,
Can someone please save me,
Come wake me from this dream!
I'm lost, can't find my way, and yet I feel I have to stay...
It's said and done your way, or else I...
All your secrets and lies, you know I see right through...
I've seen under your mask, your colors shining true...
I've been under your thumb, been under your foot too...
Why can't I let go,
I can only sink so low,
Will I ever tell you no,
You're killing me so slow!
How can I get free,
I'm all alone it seems,
Can someone please save me,
Come wake me from this dream!
I'm lost, can't find my way, and yet I feel I have to stay...
It's said and done your way, or else I...
#LifeStruggles
#suffering
#hurt
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EdibleWords
Poem Published
5th Jul 2020 9:50pm
5th Jul 2020 9:50pm
U R Here (map of the universe)
Torture is truth
at the edge of
our political
universe
Just knowing how
far we came
after the Big Bang
shot Lincoln
Dead
Paradigm
is formless slime
Your map printed
inside a
woven mask
To hold a
growing bug
made of
unrealistic
imaginal magic
Puffing on dreams
to bust out
a butterfly
...I’m part of a
generation
You will never
see again
like you...
at the edge of
our political
universe
Just knowing how
far we came
after the Big Bang
shot Lincoln
Dead
Paradigm
is formless slime
Your map printed
inside a
woven mask
To hold a
growing bug
made of
unrealistic
imaginal magic
Puffing on dreams
to bust out
a butterfly
...I’m part of a
generation
You will never
see again
like you...
#LifeCycle
#suffering
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Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
5th Jul 2020 9:42pm
5th Jul 2020 9:42pm
Freedom
Where can freedom be found?
In a bottle?
In a pill?
In unflinching religious zeal?
Where hidden faces
In the name of their god, kill
Violence is bred in the free man
There is no such thing as freedom
In this world
We are all prisoners
Slaves to those devices
We can't live without
True freedom can only be found in death
No more money
No more chains
No more thorns to cause us pain
That's when freedom
We will gain
In a bottle?
In a pill?
In unflinching religious zeal?
Where hidden faces
In the name of their god, kill
Violence is bred in the free man
There is no such thing as freedom
In this world
We are all prisoners
Slaves to those devices
We can't live without
True freedom can only be found in death
No more money
No more chains
No more thorns to cause us pain
That's when freedom
We will gain
#TruthOfLife
#frustration
#despair
#suffering
#fear
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