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maxx 1d
my brain
won’t shut up.

every second
is another scream
i’m supposed to ignore.

it tells me
to hurt myself.
to disappear.
to stop pretending.

& honestly,
i’m tired
of pretending.

they say
“you have so much
to be happy about”
as if that erases
the weight
on my chest.

as if healing
is linear.
as if trauma
can’t sneak in
once the storm
has passed.

i really thought
i was better.

i was wrong.

& now i’m just
waiting
for the silence
to come back—
even if it means
i won’t.
sometimes i wonder why i ever thought it would get better
Kaiden 2d
In a box, in the last drawer,
A blade lies.
Feeding off the quiet cries,
Not quitting, even though it tries.

Having an idiot to please,
Because SOMEONE is upset,
Cutting off the bad emotions,
Hatred, longing and regret.
So like... This one feels extremely unfinished BUT I WAS LIKE 12/13 WHEN I WROTE THIS... and i guess it's the pov of the blade once you use it
Kaiden 2d
A minute, a day
Takes another life away.
Showing the truth
Through obvious lies,
A poem is written,
The writer dies.
Im the writer btw

(another draft, this time from december)
ChrisV 3d
The river seems calm tonight,
From up here.
Or do the waves lap roughly,
Like high winds.
Navy looks pretty under
Gunmetal grey.
And the seafoam bridge cuts through
Misty skies.
Traffic noise from the city
Drowns my mind.
Thoughts can be nice but can be
Poison, too.
You may see your wings spread wide,
Diving low.
But featherless arms won’t blunt
The impact.
ChrisV 3d
You should die.
Not for our difference of opinion,
But because you’d condemn children
To homelessness,
Hunger and malnutrition,
If it gave you
A tax break.

You should die.
Not for a difference of values,
But because realizing them would mean
Women’s lives would end,
Silently
By hanger
Or razor.

You should die.
Not because you pray differently
Or pray at all,
But because your faith tells you
That others should believe the same
By force,
Fire,
Or famine.

You should die.
Not because you work hard
Or have much,
But because you think those who don't
Are beneath you
And can expect
Nothing
More.

You should die.
Not because of your fear,
But because it rips babies
From mothers' arms
And cages fathers
In El Salvador.

You should die,
Instead of I,
Because I protect life,
While all you believe
Ends it.

You should die.
I stopped naming days a while ago—
they blur like raindrops on a cracked lens.
Everything feels like an echo
of a moment that never begins.

I’m not living — I’m leftover.
A half-thought someone left behind.
Just a whisper under locked doors,
a glitch they pretend not to find.

My mirror forgets my face now.
It fogs up, refuses to see.
I trace a smile in the steam,
then wipe it off carefully.

My body’s a punishment I wake up in,
every curve a curse, every breath a dare.
They say “You’ll grow into yourself,”
but I’m scared of what’s even there.

My bedroom light flickers like it pities me.
I don’t turn it off—it feels like a friend.
Sometimes I stare at the ceiling
and wonder when all this will end.

School is a stage I perform at.
My backpack holds more secrets than books.
Teachers read me like I’m blank paper,
like I’m nothing more than looks.

I speak less every week.
Even the silence feels bored of me.
I try to write myself into poems,
but the paper just stares blankly.

I write suicide notes in my head
like lullabies when I can’t sleep.
I imagine a world without me
and it doesn’t even weep.  

No one knocks on my door anymore.
They say I’m “just going through a phase.”
But I’m not going anywhere—
just sinking in quieter ways.

I think the stars forgot my name.
I don’t even wish on them now.
What’s the point in asking for light
when you’ve never been shown how?

I keep my razor in a pencil case—
It makes more sense that way.
At least it writes something real
when my words won’t stay.

Tell me—what’s worse:
To scream and be silenced,
or to whisper your last goodbye
and still be unseen in the silence?

I don’t want a grave or flowers.
Just maybe a song without my name.
Let me go like a breath you didn’t mean—
quick, quiet, forgotten.
No blame.
23:58pm / I should be sleeping but I can’t sleep.
B 7d
Wine glass clang
Stick in time,
Still the same.
Reverberate around the pool
White or red,
Pick your tool.
Move and quiet together
I don’t need another,
Just one more feather.
Tonight I will sleep
It's finally the weekend,
I will have her love to keep.
Knowing while getting ready
Sleeping is soon easy,
Remember to keep steady.
A snack before bed
Orange and white,
They mess with my head.
Help me sleep for evermore
Hungry for the peace,
The paper in my locket tore.
Tired is the only feeling
Soon the last one,
Feeling out the ceiling.
Lock my door tonight
No body is getting in,
Except for the blight.
Can you tell I’ll be late
Tomorrow's meeting postponed,
Reschedule my date.
Soph May 22
“She’s sleeping til noon every day
With a mood that’s always gray”
Is what her mother says
While rolling her eyes
Piles of laundry,
Countless dishes
In her messy room

But hidden beneath
The laziness her mother sees
Is the reason why she always sleeps
She’s tired.
Tired of living
Tired of fighting
Tired of pretending
Tired of everything

Her mother is wondering
Why there’s always an empty seat
Where her daughter is supposed to be
But she never dares to ask
Just scrapes her daughter’s untouched plate

Then one night
Over a bridge so high
She lets out her final sigh
Before letting go of everything
The only thing that’s left from her
Is a note
A note written by shaking hands
A note soaked in teardrops
A note written to her mother

“Lazy is what you called me.
You never asked why I couldn’t move
You never asked why I was hiding all the time
You never asked why I was so tired all the time
And now you know why.”

Now her mother won’t complain
About a messy room ever again
She doesn’t even dare to enter her daughter’s bedroom
She would give anything
To hear that tired voice
Just once again
Dakota May 21
its this on going pain
i dont know its aim
know ones knows how it goes
it makes us sad
and its bad
it makes us do things
make us die
makes are family cry
its called suicide
Lilly May 21
here we are back again
in front of the medicine cabinet
with a brain full of yearning
and a heart full of sadness
my brain chemically ill making itself yearn for death
my heart full of sadness just wanting it all to stop
the only thing my mind and heart can agree on is that the sadness needs to end
this must be the only way right?
every other way I've tried never work long term
so if not this then what's the answer
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