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#despondent
…like a dull, ***** knife playing at a breathing ribcage. Filing down each individual bone until it creaks and cracks and crushes in, splitting the heart solely to match the state of this empty emotion. The story still doesn't end.
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Feb 18
Feb 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM UTC
Despondent rattles
for just a moment while waiting for my train i managed to convince myself that this stage of commuters      in waiting smoking impatiently eating hurriedly chuntering incessantly amidst the grey on grey of concrete cloud and chagrin was as pleasant as one of those bustling plazas of European cities that tourists like to take a moment with a coffee or something stronger as they watch the locals go about their day i tried to enjoy it all the same watching these lives intertwine unnoticed until cigarette smoke was blown my way one too many times and i headed instead to wait on the platform disappointed that to anybody else i would just look like the rest of them
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Oct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM UTC
wishing for a commuted sentence
smile of an exuberant child, drowning deep in the sea. his loquacious nature backthen, vanished like it never existed. ove'thinkin is not so mild, adulthood is the reason he riled.
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Jun 8, 2025
Jun 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM UTC
I MISS THE OLD ME
So integral, this feeling I can't make myself ignore it The waves seep chill from off the wind My thoughts, caught up in the current I found the beauty in the lake If only for a moment. I ignored it for so long But it's mine, just for a second The calming wind over the lake Caught in the skin of this horrid face Scared and truly alone. If I could only drift away...
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Apr 25, 2019
Apr 25, 2019 at 12:58 AM UTC
Isolation
If I was given a scroll and a feather pen to write about you, I'd need enough parchment to cover your street, so you could walk all over it while you walked away to the other one you love. I'd still find 999,999 reasons to love you and only one not to. I really hope he's not the one for you, I really would love to add that 'you love me too' to my list. Noah_arkenswagg
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Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 7:41 AM UTC
Reasons
Stung by needles with golden hilts...and cut by shiny smiles. Memories, made from skin in the colour of scars, and then come the monster butterflies in my belly. Such is the feeling when the past comes back to haunt.Noah_arkenswagg
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 4:20 PM UTC
Despondent
To sit and watch Lost in a forest of thoughts Some memories chirp and sing, others creak in the chill wind Drifting effortlessly across the moss covered ground, wandering aimlessly through the suffocating underbrush Shadows race across the ground; before long molten gold melts into the tree of my memories Mechanical waves drown the songs of my birds, distant shouts replace the wind through the leaves It’s dark Go home
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 4:07 PM UTC
Despondent?
Am I abandoned? Or did I leave? Am I the pariah? What am I?
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Jun 14, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 at 2:50 PM UTC
?
After only a moment or two I could feel the sparks A sentiment that we shared But not a fire Your name came up in the end She thought me a lair When I denied that I knew you She knew otherwise She read the look in my eyes Told me she loved me But didn't want to be friends She needed more Filled with regret Feeling abandoned She turned her eyes to the sky Blowing a kiss as she ascended Here you are, just in time Saved my life, I owe you mine You're my girl, and I could never find A soul better than you I used to pine after her Thought she could be mine Every ounce of love I spent Crafting the fantasy Still, you came after me Told me you loved me Your arms beckoning Say you still love me Here you are, you never left I can find myself in your eyes No matter how far, I leave you behind You come up behind me The best of me Squandered here with you Hiding away in shadows Your lips are fine As quicksilver, you feed me lines One at a time Thought I saw a glimpse of something more A pretty picture But I had long since swallowed my pride And you've sewn my lips closed You're never out of sight Forever, you'll be mine Speak my name, and I'll Come running back Every time
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Oct 26, 2017
Oct 26, 2017 at 11:57 PM UTC
Pier Glass
You don't focus on yourself enough ... You got problems man Deal with them ------------------------ I can see plenty I've got a good view from down here Trust me on this, I can see the cliffs The waves are empty Who else could find me way down there? And if I fell who would care? This world is empty This world is nothing if not scared Of losing those with nothing left My feet are swinging In time with the beat above thin air Just to remind myself, just how little I care Imagination is a tool but not for long Eventually the weak become the strong And we pick it back up as the weapon it Becomes Something more that what we said we want The dreams become real as we march ahead Time to justify when their dead again They had to go... The night is empty But the music's all around my head It's a good ways down, but **** it, I'm not scared My feet are swinging In time with the beat above thin air Just to remind myself, just how little I care
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Sep 24, 2017
Sep 24, 2017 at 2:31 AM UTC
Empathy Health Pool
I feel like I am suffocating There is a small hole A tunnel to my memory A place that is not empty Some place where my breath takes me A tunnel with no air at the end But things I remember Things I always will see Eyes shut with mouth I don't breathe here I just see Observe Recall Cry There is no more but black now Nothing but fear and paranoia Speechless and despondent I can't breathe;
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Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 7:11 PM UTC
Choked
*it's sadness that drives me mad the madness that makes me sad it's a sadness tears can't explain the sadness which as a scar will also pain it's one words can't put into context I just gotta live under the pretext of hope of the end yet it's one which never ends...*
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Jun 18, 2016
Jun 18, 2016 at 3:13 PM UTC
SaD
I lost the quintessence of my rainbow beaded being along with the calligraphic indian feather pen. The blood from my arteries are replaced with black ink on paper. The ingenuity of it all. How much I despise it the unoriginality ? Not feeling me in my own words.
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Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 11:06 PM UTC
I Am I.
My sadness is like a refugee seeking temporary recluse, and then decides to make my soul it’s permanent home. ripping apart the belongings of the subsequent owner, goes by the name of happiness. turning me to stone.
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Dec 31, 2015
Dec 31, 2015 at 10:41 PM UTC
Brick Lighthouse.
He had his vision wouldn't listen Mother sad Father angry He despised advice discounted the price Mother sad Father angry Shunned his closest friends wouldn't make amends Mother sad Father angry Finally he went all arguments spent Mother and Father despondent.
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Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015 at 6:16 AM UTC
Single Minded
What do you see ? When you shut your weary/gleamy eyes, Do you see what I see ? Do you see me ? Do you see the person you used to be ? Do you see the ghosts of all the people who were a part of your insignificant life ? What do you see ? The light at the other end or Oblivion.
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC
Oblivion.
last night you trespassed my dreams once again it wasn’t your typical lovesick reverie of an infatuated young girl of stargazing or romantic beach strolls hand-holding or eskimo kisses it was honest and simple and unconventional and to anyone else it would’ve seemed far from memorable for people tend to escape from reality at dusk but that ordinary reality was okay with me in a dream because it was an ordinary reality with you and thats what made it special but then, upon realising that, i woke up more despondent that i had fallen asleep.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 1:51 PM UTC
dismal dreaming
the bright sun shines and smiles and the music of the wind make dance the fallen leaves, but my sombre heart sees naught but malevolent heat and swaying puppets on strings of wind.
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 3:24 AM UTC
a blue autumn
i'm one lost little girl but maybe i'm in my place you wouldn't know, wouldn't care what's left behind this pretty face and some people do some people look at me with such heartfelt love and admiration like i'm some angel that's come from high above but what about me? what makes me so special? what makes me nervous? and, what, exactly, makes you think i will call? i've fallen from grace, can't you see? i've terminated my soul there's no brianna left to be so **** off but you won't and i'll be who you want me to be i'll live this life with you until i don't
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 1:50 PM UTC
my wrong answer
If I come home and find you gone Then you can't say that I was wrong I let you go, although it hurt But you still treat me like I'm dirt And I have pictures on the wall Of all the things we used to do And I'm still waiting for your call Did those mean anything to you? You left me Standing there Can't you see I still care? It's been a month, and I still can't sleep I think I've fallen down too deep Lying awake, staring at the floor Waiting for you to walk through my door And I had pictures on the wall Of all the things we did before Now I'm not waiting for your call And they're all lying on the floor
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC
Catastrophe Strikes At The Most Inconceivable Moments
Solitude, no pain more bitter nor sweet, Clings, through heights adored and sorrows deep, Forever with me alone and steep Amongst mountains bright, Yet black amongst valleys dry of blithe and light. No fear unknown, no death afar, Nor smile estranged, lucent as this star, For I know no further bliss nor despair As sable and as shines, But no greater desire than for my Life to forever mingle with thine.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 7:44 PM UTC
Solitude