Defeat
Broken pieces lie within.
Like shattered glass that has pierced the skin.
A painful thought
but you feel nothing.
You’re use to all the pain and suffering.
Any emotion that comes to mind, you push down, deep inside.
Nothing phases you any longer.
Every moment you grow stronger and stronger.
Until the sun sets and you lie to sleep.
All alone.
Under your sheets.
Close your eyes
but all you see
is yourself drowning in the sadness
that seems to never leave.
Depression has entered.
Insomnia hits.
Your only escape from reality has vanished.
You replenish your thoughts, now once more…
You can’t get out of this nightmare of horror.
All your insecurities screaming at you.
nowhere to turn and no one to ask
For help to get out of this shattering glass
You’re left alone to pick yourself up.
But what’s the point when you’re never enough?
That is the point.
None at all.
There is no reason for you to go on.
So this is the end I’m sorry to do this.
But I have no one and I can’t take it.
I can’t bare the pain of this pointless life.
I’m sorry to all, that I ended it tonight.
About this poem
This poem is a little on the darker side. But I was living in darkness at the time I wrote this. So this poem is obviously about struggling with depression & just mental health in general but behind the words it’s so much more. It’s a 17 year old trying to cope in what at the time seemed like such a pointless & miserable reality
Written on February 12, 2017
Submitted by Gabbyyeverett on April 26, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABCCDEEFGHIJKLMNOPEQRSTUVWXYZ1 2 |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,112 |
Words | 230 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
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