41. Broken
If I turned around and walked away, would you notice I'm gone?
Would you even care?
When you look at me, do you see the smile on my face,
Or do you see the tears I fight to hold inside?
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Featured Shared Story
Beautifully written right from the heart. Carry on telling people how you feel; don't keep things bottled up like my son did. Unfortunately, he's no longer with us. See my poem, "Jonathan's...
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42. Internal War
Every day is war to me,
A struggle to obtain reality.
A shower, my make-up, putting on my shoes.
It's hard to see the point some days,Featured Shared StoryI think this poem was a very good insight into what it is like to have anxiety, I am currently having an attack now and it is nice to have proof that I am not alone. Most of my friends don't...
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43. My Not-Addiction
It's not an addiction,
Really it's not.
But that mirror,
It's a source of affliction.Featured Shared StoryI have also struggled with my eating, and I loved the way you depicted anorexia through your imagery. I loved your stanzas about the scales and the mirror. With an eating disorder, no matter...
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44. The Truth
Slippery, sweet, syrupy words sticking in my brain
A lie
They won't go away no matter how much I try to send them back to where they came from
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45. Voices
I hear them there every day.
Why will they not go away?
They tell me that I'll be betrayed.
Will it really be that way?Featured Shared StoryJust wanted to say that I loved your poem. I can relate to it so well because I have those same voices inside my head since I was like 15 and I'm almost 49 now and they are even worse today...
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46. Voices
Flashbacks run through my mind
My hands find their way to my hair
They grab, pull, scratch
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47. Dad
I know you may not think so,
But I'm trying really hard.
I don't do it on purpose.
I did not pick this card.Featured Shared StoryI read this, and it touched my heart. I was labeled with many things from childhood through adulthood. I struggled greatly at home, in school, and in life. I cried as I read this poem. I...
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48. Panic Attack
Closing in all around me,
a fear I can't describe.
All shaky and confused,
I think I'm going to die.Featured Shared StoryI'm Rose, I'm only 14, and have suffered from severe anxiety and social anxiety since I was around 10. For the past 2 years I've suffered from depression, this poem literally lit up my heart....
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49. Panic Disorder
Tightness in my chest.
I can't breathe.
The only time I can escape
is when I fall asleep.Featured Shared StoryI am 13 years old, but I've gone through so much, well I believe I have at least. All my life I've grown up with harsh punishments, including intense beatings using belts, bamboo, and my...
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50. Something Lost
I had it once, now it's gone
Like a knot it's been undone
Was once so tight, now so slack
Happy times I wish I could have back -
Featured Shared Story
No one understands what I am suffering from. My new doctor has decided I am taking a far too dangerous drug, so he is weaning me off. I must suffer again for the length of this weaning...
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52. My Ritual
In the early hours,
As most should be sleeping,
I sit in our bedroom window and perform a ritual.
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53. Light As A Feather, Thin As A Rail
If one day, I could have a helium balloon,
And be carried away with just one little bloom,
The petals sweep around me, light enough to fly,
So little to eat, surprised I did not die,Featured Shared StoryI have an eating disorder and it hurts inside. These poems really help
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54. Am I Alone
I get a funny feeling,
it comes from deep inside.
I get all mad and angry,
wanting to go and hide.Featured Shared StoryI was diagnosed schizo-effective at 35 but I was having problems way before then. I began hearing voices when I was 29. I lost who I was and became something else. I was always wild and...
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55. The Ruse
She's beauty, style, poise and grace,
At least she appears to be.
But no one knows the girl who hides
Behind the face they see.Featured Shared StoryI myself have a daughter that is now going to be 26 in a little over a month. She doesn't leave the house at all, she comes to my house and to her Dr's appointments but not by choice. They...
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56. Uninvited Guest
I'm feeling broken down, my body aches
My heart, it bleeds from past mistakes
Can't stop the tears; they fall like rain
The words are spinning 'round my brainFeatured Shared StoryThe poet has penned down his pains in a truly pictorial ways that draws the picture of his mental condition of broken heart in the mind of the readers.
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