Misery Poems | Examples

Ended in misery

The heat creeps into the empty fabric
only getting colder
inside the tightly closed gray jacket
no warmth of jokes and laughter
nor embraces that are increasingly glowing
please, close your eyes for a moment
let me kiss between your reddened eyelids
bitterness of isolation

And if it's tomorrow
take the time for a final greeting
when I'm still stuck at the end of the road
so that the pressure on our shoulders will lighten

If it's still 20 counts
let's turn away before the bitterness ends and silences
before regret and suffocation grip us even more
before forgiveness and love are expressed again

Premium Member Consumed By Misery

Last night was no different 
I cried myself to sleep again 
I haven't fallen asleep peacefully 
Since cannot remember when

My broken heart it pains me
And I can't keep the tears away 
Maybe my heart will heal soon
But today will not be that day

I'm empty without your love
Im left feeling barren inside 
It's not just a broken heart 
It's a part of my soul that died

Maybe I loved you more
Then I could ever show
I believe I may love you 
More than even I know 

Know im lonely without you
I'm clinging to your memory 
I think it makes this worse 
I've been consumed by misery


A Picture of Misery

I saw misery 
in three horses
huddled in the corner
of a paddock -
cold, rainsoaked
they stood motionless
in the open
heads turned towards
a large tree 
with its wide canopy
a few lengths away
on the other side
of a barbed wire fence.

LIFE MISERY

Trouble created by
People
Solve by
People 
Diseases created by 
People 
Cured by
People 
Then they become boastful.

Know what
You're made for
So; you don't 
Settle for 
What you're prey to or for.

Every breath is a blessing 
Every air lesson 
As you inhale and exhale 
You realize the value of breath 
If you don't know
What you were made for
You'll settle and die for 
What they want from you.

Just a Memory, Not Your Misery

You told me it wasn’t too late
that I could still mend the cracks.
But it feels like I’ve been losing you
long before the truth escaped your lips.

Only God is my ally now,
and to Him I surrender everything,
so I can have your love
back again.

How did I become your misery?
How did my words turn empty?
How did I become… this?

All I wished
was to be your everything,
but it turns out
I was never enough.
You never found
what you needed the most.

If I disappeared in this lifetime,
maybe it would be better
so I’d only be
a memory,
and not your misery.


The Misery I Became

Am I too late to fix things?
Have I lost you?
Have you fallen out of love?
Is this what God has written for us?

Am I the only one to blame?
I have so many questions
but I truly thought I gave everything.

How will I move on
if I ever let you go?
I can’t live knowing
you longed for someone else,
or even dreamed
of finding peace in her arms.

Did I push you so far away?
I had no idea this was happening,
or maybe I was too blind
with all the love you gave me.

My heart feels shattered,
it wants to die.
It would rather die
than not have you.

You told me
this wasn’t love, but obsession.
If that’s true,
why did I, at some point,
wish you’d find happiness
even if it wasn’t with me
because I believed
I was your misery?

How did we come to this, my love?
We were each other’s world.
You were my full moon.

No life, No death

Oh death
The fear of countless souls 
I adore your kiss
I need you close
When will we meet?
When shall you come?

It's too long a wait
Please come tonight 
I don't know you
I know life is a tsunami
Perhaps you can rescue me
Where shall we meet?

Oh life
The lover of the lifeless 
I've honored your presence 
I gave you my all
Why you misled me, lover?
Why toss me into lava?

It's too long a wait 
Get out of my sight
It's as if I know you
I heard that death is a fortune
You ruthlessly fried my liver
No time for reversal

Better the joy from dying
Worse the misery from living 
Free my feet from tight shoes
My toes from hammering heat
I can hear the darkness sing
Better the joy! Worse the misery!

Oh life and death
You're all my friends
Like the sheep sharing a shepherd
Fighting firmly on the loose land —
Dear earth, why you betrayed me?
Dear hell, how will you come?

With a billion eyes, I've tasted
The two colors yearning for balance
The lovely world into balance
I need no life
I need no death
I need a midpoint!

The Misery You Crave

The Misery You Crave 
My dying day 
The misery you crave 
Run with me 
The world is ending 
Bleed with me 
A storm is brewing 
Stay with me until the end 
The night is appetizing 
Who knows if we have tomorrow 
Embrace the darkness 
Don’t leave me crawling alone 
Never let go 
Rise above the ashes 
This dying die is ours 
Buildings are burning all around 
We are unforgiven 
Candles are burning for us 
I am the misery you crave 
The sky is falling,  
Only memories remain

misery coil

Along this misery coil
Dust drifting on currents ebbing in
Approaching storms, lightning 
flickering is sheets along thunderheads 
That builds on a hot summer evening 
Along this misery coil
The humidity drips from the flesh like oil
A hot engines scream with steam 
Billowing into the twilight sky
Vacant windows with odd old
yellow lights wink on
In the hot evening 
Burning tonight
Along this misery coil 
Shadows slide along walls
Old n odd along the hollow ground 
A sliver of silver flashes into the humid 
Unforgiving night, as dark clouds 
Pass on to a horizon vast, a white moon comes 
On a hot summer evening, shines
Humid, pale light glows softly under the 
Indigo sky, streetlights flickering 
Slick silver rain falling, tumbling into wells vast
Headlights slice through the murky, muggy air
Along this misery coil, shadows fail.

Lost and Looking

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 to know; lost and last to love.
I am the last one lost.
For you cannot see even a bubble; once it is popped.
Falling not flying.

One lost, bloody word, like the lost worlds between you and me.
We love what we love and who.
We love who we love and why.
We love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted & strung between the fingers of strangers.
Strangers made strange by love.

With arms around me: dancing and hurried.
I see your face: pale and worried.
Bargaining with a life that isn't mine to bargain with isn't a bargain at all.
But, misery doesn't come cheap.
Now, I've found the missing piece.
My breath; my heart; my memory.
Me.
The other half, the missing half.

Entombed by the laws of physics; the laws of love.
Of time and space and the [in]between place.
[In]between you and me and where we are.
Because, I'm lost and looking; looking & lost.

The song of sorrows

Life is but a song of sorrows,
Days can feel like miserable melodies.
Our heartstrings plucked,
Chords that resonate with tragedy.  

The beating drum, a dark percussion,
Can serve as rhythm to the chorus of our love and joy.
That which is memorized by heart,
In every generation, the song is sung.  

In every life, a note is played—
Lows entwined with our highest moments,
Giving credence to suffering,
Unifying our spirits in a grand orchestra,  

Composing a symphony of our very soul.

WHAT IF

Is a chance either against fate or destiny,
It often looks like a planned movie that might end in everyone's favor,
The words are beginning to be buried in our heads,
The pledges ain't really made, they are  just structures build on maybe,

What if the dreams had, falls on an unfertile soil,
What if all the efforts turns to waste,
What if all the pains endured becomes vain,
What if all the hard works ends up killing,

What if, she left at the edge of misery,
What if she becomes too classic to stay,
What if all her words are just cheap stones,
What if her love fades away,

What if the light refuses to regenerate,
What if the desires are unfulfilled,
What if the man in the future never becomes a reality,
What if the gold  never comes,

What if, what if, what if,
The fears are not dying but growing,
The once red flaming faith dies gradually,
The ego of love turns an ego of anxiety and worries,


Oh, the soul seeks solace,
The silent heart, the trust it feels might soon be gone,
The strings in which hope hangs might soon be a nightmare,
Oh, what if all these happens.

Premium Member Bordering on the unbelievable'

A petition has intiaton.' On border soverigenity.' Midst angst
And supposition ? In one dimention flow of people..Has
Been a staple, before Noah sailed over the silenced; and hidden
Creations.' Yet subject to conditions i e ( travellers funding
Available craft? the (prevailing tides and seasons ) allowing
Integration, of benefit to any nation.' Any artifice; or abberation
Type's Cannot justify, it is my inclination.' Only  in the 1700s
Enslaved peoples in ( massed movement ) mirror of the
Current.' And did such not cause misery.? The 1970's
Was a purging, a cathartic stage' of (that un-normal) un-needed instancy.) driven by such materialistic social engineering originally.!
In a certainty of lunacy.' So in Britian late 2024 a petion is
Now set forth.' To seal all borders for a full five years course.' In normal
Times such would be ludicrous.' Yet in consideration of what we see' with
All the currant human misery..' It now appears most judicious and not at all Im-prudent; to use.' as i can see.)

Farewell to Poetry

I have inked my verses 
All day for so long 
Poured my soul in pages
But got nothing in return
For being a full time poet 
Poverty has ruined my life 
Crippled my very spirit 
Humiliation and neglect 
follows me everywhere 
My wrinkles and weary eyes
Speak of misery and destitution
So I have decided 
To forsake my pen 
Destroy all my works 
Delete from memory 
That once I was a bard
My verses will die with me
As I perform their last rites
Since writing has got me nowhere.

Premium Member Coffee Cups and Misery

I grab myself a coffee cup
To drink the sorrow away
Sip by sip, to the final drop
My mind is led astray

Drive the frigid cold aside
To keep my pulse from being still
And free the fantasies I hide
Infuse my heart devoid of thrill

Bliss I find in but a spoon
What more if I swig all it in
Though surely this would all end soon
I'll stake for just one unforced grin

Cup per cup, I crave for more
Of this rich drug I slowly kill
Without hesitation, again I pour
'Till I begin to hold what's real

And thus the truth would set me free
That she won't ever seek my name
Whilst I might drown in coffee sea
Still she will never feel the same

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