#exhaustion poems on Hello Poetry

Viancy Aug 2020

With such ease
they cross the street, walk straight, and talk to each other
With incredible calm
they work, flirt, talk and move
up and down, side to side, in and out
like a performance with no rehearsal
While I struggle and words stuck in my throat
for the tiniest conversation,
For I make the most simple social interaction
a great feat
For I retreat in exhaustion
after what might be the easiest of the days outside myself.

#socialanxiety #anxiety #mentalhealth #exhaustion

Kelsey Banerjee Jul 2020

back then

two years
she plunges into frigid
waters.
do you remember
what they used to call us?

loved, maybe,
but only by those
who misunderstand it.

she waits
unshaven, unwashed,
exhausted
from her past,
for her future.

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#poetry #depression #tired #exhaustion #random #thoughts

Amanda Hawk Jul 2020

Overwhelming

Bones ache exhaustion

Things pile up and I crack

Splinter knowing

There is no one there to catch me

I feel myself slipping

Piece by piece

And I would scream

I am drowning

If I thought someone was listening

#drown #help #scream #exhaustion #listen #helpless

Growly Wolfus Jun 2020

Exhaustion

I step out of bed each day
and collapse upon the floor.
Why I pick myself up and how
are a mystery every morning.

Like someone whispering,
"Don't give up yet. You still have hope.
And hope is the light that will guide you home."
So I keep moving, keep breathing,
keep loving, keep failing.
But I keep living.

And every morning
when I'm tired of this life,
ripped to shreds and worn to the bone,
I hear a voice that reminds me,
weary I may be,
I know that when I fall
someone will catch me,
even if it is the ground.

I thank God for my guardian angel and those who help me continue on.

#growlywolfus #tired #exhaustion #guardian #angel

Kelsey Banerjee May 2020

exhaustion

my soles are copper nearly
black, pudgy and blistering
heels cracked from heat
and hateful words,
my hands aren’t much better.
I soak them with epsom salts and tears
some nights I ask the sky,
why have you given me empathy -
what can I do with it
in a country soaked in blood?

#exhaustion #dark #pain #feeling #blood #thoughts

Connor May 2020

A Love Persued to Exhaustion

I was under the impression that even with this crippling depression I could count on the thought of you to keep me from my regression into the pain that is felt when you are absent
I was wrong.

I just wanted to hold you in my arms, I was so scared of letting go, I watched as you walk away, leaving me to my thoughts alone
Thinking I'm not good enough.

These thoughts, a Tsunami, its destruction attempting to tear apart my life, taunts and seeks control over me. But I, desperately waiting for you, resist them.

I have been searching for what I could say that would bring you to love me again. I try to call out to you begging for an answer begging for you to come back.

But I know you won't. the nature of the comfort you sought has brought you into another's heart

But I need you!
I need you to tell me!
I need to know why!
Why I wasn't enough?!?
Why did you leave!?!?
come back....
please....

Be the one who accepts me.....
Just like you promised.....

#comeback #love #iamstillbroken #exhaustion #depression

Mrs Anybody Apr 2020

exhaustion

my eyes
stare into
the void

my mind
is no longer
present

my body
hurts a bit
with every move

i am just
so exhausted

remember to take breaks folks

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#feelings #exhaustion #takeabreak