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  Aug 2014 Shaima Al-Marzouqi
Lahela
"
How can I get mad over the fact that no one stays,

When all I do is beg to be left alone?
Things Within
(A poem on Depression)

Things within are hard to see
But we feel them deep inside
When others ask how we are
We smile and tell them lies

Things within our inner thoughts
That seem to never go away
Emotions that cannot be stopped
We hear them each and every day

Things within that no one knows
And we hope they never do
Many different parts of life
We hide from daily view

Things within we must let go
Like the demons from our past
We try to push them far away
And hope they don't come back

Things within they can be changed
If we share them with a few
Know many others have things within
It is not just only you

We all have things within


Carl Joseph Roberts
This poem written in response to the Dread Poet Roberts who is having a poetry contest to bring awareness to the issue of depression. Although the Dread Poet Roberts has my last name, He/She is no relation to me at all. The poem is meant to bring light to depression and how some feel it deep inside every day and must attempt to hide it. The every day struggle to overcome.  No matter what, never think you are alone.
You killed something in me
Something that made people look my way and smile
The very thing that made you like me

You killed it
You killed my innocence
And for that
I will not forgive you
nor myself

Ever since then
I've been trying so hard
every day
to revive it
One, two, three, CLEAR!
... and nothing

It is not an easy thing to restore

I don't even know if it's possible
But I'll keep trying
I'll keep hoping
that one day I can again
be that girl
the girl known and admired
for her innocence
because everybody always liked that person
and so did I
I miss the person I used to be. I've changed. I don't like change.
  Aug 2014 Shaima Al-Marzouqi
a gale
I wanna be the girl that makes you smile on a bad day
the girl you can’t wait to see everyday
the girl that your mind leads to out of the blue
the girl that makes you happy
the girl you’d wait for in your whole  lifetime
the girl you can’t stand losing
the girl that you’ll never let go of
the girl you’ve painted your future with
the girl that would take your last name
the girl to mutter ‘I do’ on your wedding day
the girl that you’d love last
the girl you’d hold onto when your hair is gray
I just want to be
The girl I’ll never be.

*a. gale
Its easy to fool people

put on a Smile

and they feel

you are Alright

Sometimes I wonder

if I am a Fine Actor

Or is it

that I have a

Blind Audience
I've been stuck in this hole for too long
This hole of emptiness and sadness

I can't recognize happiness
I don't think I can really feel it anymore

When I think I'm experiencing happiness
I wait...
I wait for whatever it is to come and ruin it
because that thing always comes
always

It hurts to live like this
It hurts that I'm used to it

These night thoughts are becoming my day thoughts too
I'm tired
I just wanna sleep
I wanna be free

They tell you to stay away from the voices
The ones that are putting you down,
drowning you,
and slowly killing every bit of you
But what do you do when these voices are inside your head?
What do you do when the voices' home is you?
Where do you run to?

*My mind,
let me be at peace, please
I beg of you set me free
Anxiety is getting the best of me again. Been reoccurring for days in a row which didn't happen before. There used to be days or weeks between them, I just keep praying that this isn't for forever.
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