#mental poems on Hello Poetry

Nak Sep 2021

I don't feel fine in this place...
I feel confined to this space...
I don't feel fine in this place...

My thoughts in my mind's been displaced
I can't describe how it tastes
or all of the time that it takes
to get myself out of this race
I don't feel fine in this place...

She said that I'll be okay, but...
I listen to the words she don't say, cause...
that's where all her true feelings stay
I'm in an emotional state
But not cause it's been a bad day, nah...
keeping my balance to stay, calm...
One wrong step and you blast like a ******
All the commotion makes me wanna take off...

Would it be better to go or to stay?
I don't feel fine in this place...

#balance #peace #mental #calm #ego

Carolina Aug 2021

If I could make a wish.

I wish I could go back to the day I met you,
back to that december,
and never stop your way.
If I could make a wish
it'd be to feel better
all by myself.
Today, I am in a place I hate to be.
Today, the love I felt does not exist.
My friend pain is the air i breathe.
And I wonder why I won't just leave.

#love #pain #relationship #mental #health

beckie d and the poetry Aug 2021

Long Enough

Look at me just long enough to know you don't like what you see

Talk to me just long enough to know you want to leave

Keep me around just long enough to know I take up too much space

Find the words just cruel enough to let me know I am only a drain

Notice my absence just long enough to know that you made a mistake

you made a mistake

#mental #health #friendship #goodbyes

One Andean Sky Jul 2021

NAVIGATING A SPINE By Marcela Guajardo July 2021

Cervical Thoracic Lumbar

The natural curve
Supports all that life gives.
It withstands gravity
Wears and erodes with time

Dignity and poise when life is light
But heaviness of life burdens and bends
Life humps drag and pushes down
The spine fights the forces

Fighting the creep weighs dead
Muster muscles and thought
Natures law wins

#physical #and #mental #health

Zelda Aug 2021

lighthouse

Hi
You don't have to reply
I know you're trying, fighting to stay above crashing waves
And avoiding perilous rocky coasts

Hey
How do you feel today?
I just wanted to reach out, and make sure you're okay

I'll be your lighthouse
Standing on rocky cliffs
Dancing on the sandy shoals
Forget your shame and your strife
And come dance with me for a while
Love

Hi
You don't have to reply
I know it’s exhausting, holding onto an invisible raft lost at sea
Avoiding dangerous shallows

Hey
How do you feel today?
I just wanted to reach out, and make sure you're okay

I'll be your lighthouse
Standing on rocky cliffs
Dancing on the sandy shoals
Forget your shame and your strife
And come dance with me for a while
Love

I know you're drifting past everyone
feeling distant from everything
I know you're feeling strange
But this isn't your first time sailing
And I'll always be waiting at harbours and bays
Like I always do to make sure you're okay
Love

I'll be your lighthouse
Standing on rocky cliffs
Dancing on the sandy shoals
Forget your shame and your strife
And come dance with me for a while
Love

#love #friendship #depression #mental #health #rocky #cliffs #sea #methaphor #texting

beckie d and the poetry Aug 2021

facility

let's create a facility
call it something great
when its truth is horrid
wait a minute!
back up.
regroup.
that idea is taken
it's already been done.

what psych wards taught me

#mental #health

koketso Aug 2021

Survivor (still war)

If I had to anonymously write about being hogged by depression, my pens would run out of ink before I could finish.
While reading it, you might even conclude that the author finally succumbed to the morbid thoughts and machinations lurking around his overwrought mental. When in reality...

10 toes is what I still stand on.

I don't think anybody truly "survives" or gets "cured" from depression. Or at least not with me. You just learn how to stop it from feeding off of you. You starve it. Even though it still lurks in the dark corner, it is powerless when its host is enLIGHTened.

#mental #depression #survivor #health

Syd Aug 2021

Mentally ill

You are mentally ill
Do as you will
Society laughs at your state
Accept your fate
It's a **** show out there
Take good care

#mental #health