B - Hello Poetry

B Mar 2018

Depression is many things

It is numb and aloof
Like you're on trial for being victim to every action or word spoken to you, but you bear the burden of proof

It is overwhelming and undertreated
Sinking or collapsing but never moving. Knowing you're better off now, but still feeling cheated

It is patient and twisting
Always dancing in the dead space of thought before you fall asleep resisting

Depression is many things
But it isn't me

#freeverse

Mar 2018

SeaChel

Emotionally Immature (Haiku)

When life got harder
you were physically there still,
but your heart ran off.

#love #leave #life #hard #depressed #anxiety #heart

Mar 2018

KJ

panic induced mornings

Heart pounding,
Stomach churning,
Hands shaking,
Panic.

I wake up feeling
oh so nauseous
why is my heart
pounding in my chest?

I tell myself:
"you're fine"
"it's all in your head"
"just breathe"
but then why do the symptoms feel so real?

My thoughts are racing
in time with my pounding heart beat
My stomach queasy and my
body trembles like a shaken leaf
blowing in the wind.

The panic makes it seem
like I will never feel well again
I crave to be normal
to not feel like I'm dying
just from waking up.

#depression #depressed #anxiety #panic #attacks #anxious

Mar 2018

Julia Plante

30

how cruel can time be
to sew together two hearts
a decade apart

Mar 2018

Oliver Bates

Imagination

Imagination's beautiful
It can turn a stick into a sword
A tree into a giant fort
And a bike into a Ford
It can even change yourself you know,
You can turn yourself into a spy
Or a hero with a suit and cape
Or a pirate with one eye

Or a joke
And a failure
And a man with a future bleak
For imagination can be a curse
And a reason that we're weak
It makes me think a laughing crowd's
Subject matter must be me
It makes me weary constantly
A devil in my head
Did she say she'd die for me
Or that she wants me dead?