Often times, depression is the result of a traumatic or chronic event that has significantly affected the individual’s self esteem, their sense of self worth. By taking time to write out your feelings, no matter how raw they might be, you can begin to free yourself from what binds you and start empowering yourself again. Through journaling or writing poems, you take your power back and reclaim yourself for the amazing, powerful person that you really are!
This page has been developed so that you can share yourself with others, so that you can reclaim your power and begin the healing process. This is a place where we can safely share with others –people that understand what you are going through, people that understand how tough life can be sometimes.
If you have any poems about your experience with depression that you’d like to share - feel free to do it here. And, if you read one that touches you, feel free to respond in the comments section and offer your unconditional love and support for others. The only request is please keep it keep it real but keep it clean. All rated “R” submissions will be rejected. Thanks!
Journaling and writing depression poems can be very therapeutic and empowering. This is a safe, supportive place where you can share your original poems (no plagiarizing please!) and provide support to others that have submitted theirs.
This is an opportunity to create a community that is willing to share their thoughts and feelings and willing to give back to others in the spirit of healing.
Click on the links below to see some other great poems. They were all written by other visitors inspired to share themselves with you.
Depression Poems: When I'm Gone.





People move forward, life goes on, sometimes I wish I could just be gone;
From all this pain and all this hurt, I wish I was buried 6 feet beneath ...
Depression Poems:
Homeless





The Moon mocks me,
as I watch, He smiles,
as I drown-
wallow-
in my misery,
His tilted smile draws me into
depths of desire I have yet to know
His ...
Depression Poems: **Lost**





Alone and forgotten she stands in the rain,
Feeling how droplets mix with the pain.
She's lost in gray fog, in a monochrome world,
And dreams she ...
Depression Poems: See





If you could see my pain
Would you treat me the same
Would you put me down all the time
If you could see how much I cry
Would you hurt me so much
...
Depression Poems:
The Girl in the Mirror





I look in the mirror and see a girl,
Who is staring back at me.
I don't know who she is,
Because she's not the girl I wanna be.
She puts a smile ...
Depression Poems:
Tears





You see that girl crying
The pain in her eyes
Irises heavy with fear and sadness
She looks well past you
As if she’s empty inside
The sounds of ...
life is a grave





believe we live in a grave
believe torture our pleasure
we-live our bellies we treasure
ina-...
-God Help Me-





No one will understand, or know how I truely feel. My minds unreal, my thoughts etc. unreal. It's just pure darkness, it's insane. They'll never understand ...
Depression Poems: The climb





Life is a climb
You will get past it if you try
Climb until you drop
Don't give up on yourself
If you drop, ou wont finish
And if you don't finish,...
Depression Poems:
The Animal Within



Anger, hatred, these are my friends
I do not give faith, encouragement, or hope
I cry out in rage, my patience is thin
No good can I do, nor do I want ...
Depression Poems: Pain of an Insane

I feel so hollow deep inside
I will crumble if you hold me tight
No light at the end of tunnel
Just a long road with no end to struggle
Slim are ...
Depression Poems:
They Don't Understand
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It's like a heavy weight on your shoulders, never easing up
They think it's my choice, but they don't hear the loneliness in my voice
You think your ...
Depression Poems:
A 12 Year Old's Depression
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Before I found out I didn't know why I felt so sad all the time,
I didn't feel alone, even when isolated on an island blackened with misery,
I didn't ...
Depression Poems: Sink Or Swim
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There is a hole inside my chest
it’s burning through my empty heart
I’m empty and it’s burning
I’m sinking in deeper
I don’t know how to stay alive
...
Depression Poems: A Crazed Mind
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I often wonder why
When I glance upon the endless sky
That wishes are made on shooting stars
Not the dependable Sun the moon or Morning star
Is it ...
Depression Poems:
Just as My Crazed Mind
Tries to Think Straight
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Grass or Moss or just a weed,
to be the big powerful tree was not my creed,
I still wanted to feel the heights and so to be a climber was just my greed....
Depression Poems:
The Red Paint
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I feel lonely,
but I wont tell anyone,
I feel sad,
[I cover it with a fake smile....
Depression Poems:
LOVE = PAIN
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LOOK DEEP INTO MY WEEPING EYES
DOWN TO MY SUFFERING SOUL
AND YOU WILL FIND AN EMPTINESS
WHERE I ONCE FELT SO WHOLE
MY LOVING HEART HAS BEEN ABUSED
...
Depression Poems: The Hurting
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I want to die
all I do is cry and cry
it hurts to stay alive
but scary to think otherwise
I don't want to fight
I can never do anything right
as ...
Depression Poems:
Love or Hate?
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Feelings are feelings,
Love makes you feel great,
but hate,
it's a feeling,
not so good,
it's depressing,
I just wish I could,
push it away,
never ...
DEPRESSION POEMS: NOVEMBER TORTURE
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MY HEART HAS BEEN DRAINED OF ALL OF ITS BLOOD
MY SOUL IS STUCK IN A THICK EVIL MUD
MY MIND IS IMPRISONED IN A DARK, SILENT CELL
MY DREAMS OF ...
Depression Poems
Without you...
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Your my everything, believe me it's true. I will never make by without you. I can't quit, I can't take one more sleepless night. I lost myself. I lost ...
Depression Poems: Subliminal Messages
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They say scars of the past
become scales that do not last
This is so untrue
I can proove it to you
The pain from the sand
makes pearl in the end
Depression Poem: Not Me
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I didn't mean to do it, I really didn't at all.
I don't know why it happened. All I really know is it's making my life fall, fall flat around me the guilt ...
Depression Poems:
Ramblings of a Crazed Mind
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1 I am accepting change,
it feels so strange, is this the benumbing experience of age?
Since while in youth
I still fought for truth
2 Broken ...
Encounters of the Usual Kind
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No plagiarizing, then? Good, as I expressly forbid it.
I can almost taste the silver of my eyelids when I close them,
Choices, they say, choosing ...
Throw the Dice
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Awake, in darkness, shadow's whisper
It's true, Admit it, Accept it, Live it
An outcast, alone in a world of lonesome
Contemplating fears and shadows
...
Depression Poems: Broken
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The way I felt.
The way I smiled at you.
Did it mean anything? I am no longer alive.
There is no fire inside my heart.
Dark, lonely, cold, and thirsty....
Depression Poems: The Days I Dread
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This pain I feel inside
Alone and empty I cry
Tears wound my heart
Your arms healed my eyes
From the start of goodbye's
Eyes are heavy
Eyes are ...
Depression Poems: Insane
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Another day alone, another day of pain
Another day of craziness, another day not sane
Another day with out you, another day so lame
Another day the ...
Goodbye
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I found this person
This person who's feelings worsen
This person said that he might kill himself tonight
I would have told him no, but this person ...
Depression Poems:
D is for Depression
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Till the day I can’t wish or hope to reason my thoughts
The future I wish or hope to achieve seems quite bleak
Do I care for the day when my sorrows ...
Depression Poems: The Blues
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Tears are rolling down my face, something is out of place.
My emotions are rolling up and down like a wild roller coaster. People in my life are slowly ...
Depression Poems:
Killing Nightmare
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My hands down and helpless
then watching my heart die
only people stucked in that
nightmare can understand my
distress. And this makes me
stand aloof,...
Depression Poems:
Do you know why?
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Do u know why...my tearz roll dwn..
cuz my eyez r missin somone around..
missin someone whu cud heal d scratch..
missin smeone whu iz d prfct match....
I Cry
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I cry silently
I cry inside of me
I cry hopelessly
Why did you leave me?
I missed your hugs
I missed your kisses
I missed your laughter and ...
Kay Hurricane
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I look down on da ground worrying why my life is so upside down.
It's a maze goin through my mind and folks wonder why I'm so down cause I'm goin through ...
Depression Poems:
Strong People Feel Weak Sometimes
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I can’t begin to explain how much it hurts to express myself in words.
There’s nowhere to turn when you’re not well known, not even within your own ...
A Depression Poem by Chas
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THE DEMONS OF DEPRESSION ARE AT IT AGAIN... WAKING ME FROM MY RESTLESS SLUMBER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT... GNAWING AWAY AT MY MIND, LIKE STARVING SATANIC ...