Poem about Sadness

The inspiration behind this poem revolves around a time in one of my personal relationships. At the time, things were really stressful, and I was really unhappy. I felt I had no one to turn to or could escape from the hell I was in.

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Falling From Darkness

Published by Family Friend Poems January 2011 with permission of the Author.

Falling from darkness
To a place I don't know,
Everything's moving with no place to go.
I feel so alone and scared.
As I fall, I wonder, "Is anyone there?"

As the days and nights pass right by,
I count the nights; I just lay and cry.
Falling from faith, falling from love,
Please, is there anyone up above?

Never did I want to feel like this
When the answer lies with the slit of the wrist.
My mind is racing to find another solution
Before it's too late and I'm just an illusion.

No one knows how I really feel.
I just want him to hold me and help me heal.
As I fall, I feel the rain.
I begin to think that maybe he isn't the key to ease my pain.

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by Ali Glass
4 years ago

I can really relate to this poem. I have depression, and there will be days where I just don't want to get out of bed. I'll just cry for no reason sometimes. There is also days where everything is all right.

by Veena
5 years ago

Beautifully written. I am going through a phase which is hard to define. I wonder if I am right or I am wrong to let myself drift in this pain, the pain of feeling alone. Your poem encapsulated my feelings, gave words to my state of mind.

by Lisa Barcak
9 years ago

I think it's very beautiful. It identifies the beauty of pain,as an absolute finite of existence of one's being. Conquering one's own longevity or continuation without it.
To love is to fall of one's own self relinquishing one's own need of independent life,and the separation of the thing you love,a death of one's self metaphorically as that love dies.

by Janai Stewart
9 years ago

Wowww....... Anne I can relate to the fullest it's so hard to overcome intense sadness when you feel there is no way out and no one to turn to. God is good but it also works to have strong compassionate people in your life to help you through tough times. It reminds me of that song what the world needs now is LOVE sweet LOVE. It's the only thing that it's Just too little of. People need to love as much as they preach. Because faith with out works AKA action is dead... And it makes people who feel alone lose faith and hope.

by Lilly Strawn, South Carolina
10 years ago

I enjoyed this poem because the tone is not sarcastic but serious and the word choice was beautifully written.

by Tyler Texas
10 years ago

I feel like this poem captured the way I've felt for the last 1 1/2 in word form

by Sam
12 years ago

Wonderful poem Anne. Perfectly captures how I'm feeling at the moment. Fighting a losing battle with myself at the moment :(