Mental Illness Poems | Examples of Mental Illness Poetry

I want to rip my face off. I pinch and poke in hopes of leaving a clean flattened surface. I long for my skin to smooth out. I assure myself I am aware of what...Read the rest...

I continue staring at the wall. If spiders started spilling out of that crack. I don’t think I’d move. My mom thinks I’m weird. I hadn’t spoken for hours but there’s still echoes down here. I could hear her. Coming down...Read the rest...

Windows that aren’t real windows. Outside is fake too. The fence is real though, I tried. Crayons aren’t sharp. But maybe that’s how it’s supposed to be. They turn the phones off at this time. And force us outdoors. But it’s just...Read the rest...

How can they say silence has no sound? Make it go away. Floor-felled, right ear pressed to the phone, cowering in a quarry of quiet between coffee table and couch. Yes I tell her yes I can hear. Fingers in ears,...Read the rest...

I try not to. I blink anyway. Like blinking out seawater. It pours. Goosebumps are uncontrollable. Sitting for hours. Sitting unnaturally. But I can’t shift, only sway. They command me to stand. My feet are asleep, but that’s not the worst of it. I see...Read the rest...

Another sun has risen And those dreams forgiven Past miss takes were illuminated And in sleep they were illustrated Shown pictures of pleasures and pain Painted on my mind it all seemed so plain At the moment when hope had left...Read the rest...

I had a moment to see Flashbacks Rewind, Rewind my memory I need these thoughts to breath Fireworks to help me feel Light my mind Keep me spinning on this timeline Moments ago, we touched hands and it touched my soul Only my heartbeats...Read the rest...

When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue. When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William Shakespeare and William Jennings Bryan all in one. When I am...Read the rest...

im playing cards with pandora and she’s bleeding her hand its so painfully obvious i see her grand plan, because calamities hit a set and she’s feeling alright but theres one card left im holding hope tonight and its hope which keeps me...Read the rest...

I cannot tell him that I still love him, That losing him breaks my heart in a thousand new ways each day. Because if I did, then he might try to come back to me. I cannot tell...Read the rest...

In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childhood's tender grasp, she stood...Read the rest...

In shadows deep, she seeks her rest, Where pain's embrace feels like a test. Her heart, a fortress, cold and still, Where echoes of her anguish fill. The girl, once bright, now lost in night, In comfort found in endless...Read the rest...

In the halls of my mind I walk as I ponder, Over things that trouble me, big and small, Over things that tear me asunder; As though I was made for this toll. And I burn and melt and...Read the rest...

I will commit suicide I will commit suicide I can’t live Someone wants kill me I don’t need this life English psychology… English psychology… Destroyed my life Why? I don’t know Am I a human? Or an animal? Hmm. I am suffering. A lot, a lot of...Read the rest...

"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress" - Daniel Henry Rodgers The hourglass, a skeletal jester, mocks in the tomb's chill, Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, "Soon you'll cease to be." The mirror's cold reflection, a Gorgon's ghastly...Read the rest...