Mental health Poems
Stop Romanticizing Mental Health
by Shay Grace
Anorexia, Anxiety, Depression, Self-Harm, Suicide
How you have become my friends
You have grown up with me and have been by my side
Friends I could not live without
You guys have controlled my life
And have left me at the end of my rope
What I go through every day is very real
You have put me through the lowest darkest times
It angers me when people put off my issues
Like they don't even care, they don't even try
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The Weight of Calling 988
by Frangipani Retrograde
It's been a week since I last showered
Can't force myself to get ready for anything
If I wake up it's a miracle 'cuz I haven't gone to bed for days
I just fall asleep with the lights on
I wish I wasn't here,
I wish I wasn't here.
Nobody knows but I'm living a lie
Sit at my desk and I'm wondering why
I have to be affected by losing my friend
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Armour
by Erin Owens
Dissocaition is the armour my mind
and body so desperately clings too.
Wrapping myself in a hazy dream,
The real me only seen by few.
My laughter muffled, my cries suffocate,
A skill I so perfectly cultivate.
The emotions escape me as I try to feel,
All human experience does not feel real.
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INSANITY
by Acuda Derick
The mind can be a fragile thing,
A labyrinth of thoughts within.
A maze of memories and dreams,
A place where reality begins.
But what happens when the mind takes flight,
And reason loses its hold on sight?
When the boundaries of sanity are crossed,
And the senses seem to become lost?
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Eureka
by Leo W
They look like drops of sunlight
These tiny yellow seeds
I take them with me everywhere
And plant them when I need
Some say I shouldn’t need them
But they haven’t seen my brain
"Your prospects are so rosy,
You’d be foolish to complain!"
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Armour
by Erin Owens
Dissocaition is the armour my mind
and body so desperately clings too.
Wrapping myself in a hazy dream,
The real me only seen by few.
My laughter muffled, my cries suffocate,
A skill I so perfectly cultivate.
The emotions escape me as I try to feel,
All human experience does not feel real.
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All the crimes I've committed
by Kira Walker
What if the perfect murder
Is all that i do on my own?
What if i can't go further
And I'll have to do it all alone?
I look in the mirror and
Don't see myself anymore
All i see is a lifeless body,
A stranger looking, a faded blur
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Emptiness
by Muskan Sharma
Being in confortable surroundings makes my chest feel oddly out of place.
My body is wrapped in warm blankets, everything at ease.and the sudden quiet makes the Festering emptiness be heard.
I hear it crawl around, nawing at everything i once had.Hear it mock me with its crooked teeth at display. Cause playing pretend didn't seem to work.
I throw the blankets away.
The winter air stings my bare skin and with every prick the emptiness seems to go away.
Maybe it will work this time. Maybe playing pretend will make it go away.
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Suspended In Thin Air
by Frangipani Retrograde
If you ain't got family
Damn (then?) you don't have anything
There's nobody home
But they're there just the same
Ghosts with eyes you can't see
Watching from the corners like creeps
It's so scary and it's shameful I wish I had a family who wanted me
Home, I just want to be home
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The Weight of Calling 988
by Frangipani Retrograde
It's been a week since I last showered
Can't force myself to get ready for anything
If I wake up it's a miracle 'cuz I haven't gone to bed for days
I just fall asleep with the lights on
I wish I wasn't here,
I wish I wasn't here.
Nobody knows but I'm living a lie
Sit at my desk and I'm wondering why
I have to be affected by losing my friend
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