Depression Gothic Poems

I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade...

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Surrounded by strangers who love me.
[Un]strangers made strange by pain.
Words the same as always, the same as nothing, when nothing is the same.

Lost and last...

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With a dying breath I realize
I’m the one holding the blade 
The one to my heart and veins 
I really thought it was you 
Until...

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Dead station of soul, cold
a cuneiform of heavenly hosts 
on a cathode ray tube, born
shadows of forgotten sliver gods roam
digital tears, a broken modem's wail,...

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I'm helpless, helplessly so,
Bound to the weight of mine own woe.
Mine hands do shake, mine limbs do fail,
And every deed is carved in frail.

I wander...

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Don't say a word
It's time to finally leave this world
The difference between close and lose
Is the letter c the chance to choose
And once and for...

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Somber slate clouds blanket the longing skies,
whilst wisps of snow paint the frozen ground below.
Ombre leaves barrenly speckle slumbering trees,
glistening sheets of ice coat their...

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Satanic trip!...

I’m sat here wonderin’ why my thoughts align,
With the dark,
like Satan’s mind.
Is it fate or just a sign,
That my brain’s like his,
And on a...

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Raucous winds sweep pristine waves 
against gods' sepulchral canvas as
stagnant, sharp wings' frames rose from malnourished hearts;
ends of elongated crosses marked beginnings
of rotten, venomous roots...

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In the alleys of mirrors, reflections stare back with faces I've yet to covet. The cacophony of screams and whispers, a post-coital slack-jawed pause, the...

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I didn't know what to say.

For once in my life, I was quiet.

I stood there, nails digging into my palms, it stang;

Eyes too, tears reflect...

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An ancient facade
Of wood and flesh entwined
A dream half-dream in flesh discard
Something undefined
Mechanical sublime
Where soul intertwined 
A silent regime 
In between space n time 
where...

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The Devil's House

The house has lived for centuries, 
on grim and dismal ground. 
And when you've reached inside, 
the dust and demons come around. 

The...

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When the tar-soaked rain cascades from ominous clouds,  
And the oceans roar with Poseidon’s might,  
As the screaming ground heaves beneath your careless...

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…grinds beneath a sky with blackened stars,
Its gears churn slow, relentless, fevered rot.
Time dips into a thick ooze, bleeding from rusted teeth,
Each second, screams swallowed...

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