Poems about Sadness - Page 2

The Face In The Mirror

• By Catherine S. Liebenberg
• Published: March 12, 2019

What do you see when you look into a mirror?
Do you see a face of grace
or the belief of grief?
Do you see a blessing of success

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I Sit And Look Out

• By Walt Whitman

I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
        oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
        themselves, remorseful after deeds done;

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Nothing Left To Say

• By MarcoKirstein
• Published: March 2018

I've got nothing left to say.
It's like the words ran away.

And I'm stuck between these walls

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We Wear The Mask

• By Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

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Skeletons

• By Debbie Grenier
• Published: June 2011

The welcome mat outside my door
is dusty, old & worn
'cuz people have been entering in
since the day that I was born

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Different As Black And White

• By Natasha L. Damian
• Published: February 2006

I dont understand
why cant you see
just what your yelling is doing to me
open your eyes...

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The Pain Shows

• By Ashley
• Published: August 2008

When I look into your eyes,
I see the pain you try to hide.
You try to be tough,
But the pain shows ...

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Stuck In The Past

• By Remaining Anonymous
• Published: September 2008

Stuck In The Past,

Old memories, old actions, old regrets,
It seems someone never forgets,...

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Tulips

• By Sylvia Plath

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.

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Darkness Befalls

• By Amorita Maharaj
• Published: May 2008

Gliding deep into the forest
Darkness covers me like a blanket
And the mist surrounding me
I feel like there's no way to flee

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