Mental Health

Uh-Huh
Donnie-- I heard a rumor, Are you still battling your demons? Uh-huh And is your will to live, Changing, Like the seasons?
By Donnie Barlow11 months ago in Poets
Through Seasons To Forever
Through Seasons to Forever We started with crayons, colors in hand, Sketching our dreams in a soft, sandy land. The world was a canvas, simple and wide,
By Marie381Uk 11 months ago in Poets
How Do I Live
How Do I Live How do I live without you near. No one here I can hold dear. No hugs no sweet talking tonight. Your no where near that isn’t right.
By Marie381Uk 11 months ago in Poets
What's the Difference Between Loneliness and Being Alone?
I'm used to being alone, and I always feel freer this way. It's more fulfilling. If there's a movie that interests me, I'll go see it alone. Traveling alone can happen on a whim, without having to discuss the time and destination with others, let alone consider other people's preferences.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharing11 months ago in Poets
Caged Wings
They say I can fly, but they clip my wings, They hand me choices, yet bind me in strings. "Not this, not that," their chorus remains,
By Ellie11 months ago in Poets
A Grey Mourning
Author's Note I wrote this poem in December, about a month after my husband passed away, just after I had scattered his ashes into the ocean east of our home.
By Henrik Hageland11 months ago in Poets
Being Alone
Sometimes- I lie, And tell you, I’m fine, And I know that it’s wrong… But- Inside, Always struggling, Feels— Like I’m dying,
By Donnie Barlow11 months ago in Poets
Unbecoming To Become
You are not meant to be a prodigy of everything Release that bondage of expectations That chain of perfection ~ For it’s been tying you down
By Ann ☕️11 months ago in Poets
Embracing the perfect me!
Holding the greens of expectations, Living in the dark reality, Thought my life would be perfect, If only I removed the mask of insecurities.
By Charitha Challa11 months ago in Poets
Patchwork
I stare at these walls of haphazard rooms filled with mismatch things a life once broken stitched together with bits and pieces
By Ellie Hoovs11 months ago in Poets
Don't Cry
Don’t cry You never knew them They were never human Nothing but a glimmer A thought Of something you sought Just a thought
By Atomic Historian11 months ago in Poets
burrowing thoughts. Top Story - March 2025.
build me a space where i dont even have to think about it, i just know i can do it. build me a place where i am so sure of everything that the questions in my mind have stopped daunting, crawling, haunting over each other, deep into the walls of my brain, burrowing holes like cockroaches that have no idea where they are going but are still in search for food. and perhaps the thoughts arent the cockroaches but perhaps instead they are me, i am them. a burrowing thought dragging deeper and deeper into tissue that was never meant to open, flesh that was never meant to split. it cries and divides under my claws and nails, but its not enough to stop the constant, drag, hit, drag, push, inch further and further till i can find
By Belle11 months ago in Poets