Poem about depression and loneliness.
I can slay the day,
But the night
Rules over me with an iron fist,
It sets me down,
It tells me everything that
I long to forget,
Lies. Secrets. Fears,
It makes me listen,
Still as the tomb,
It makes me remember,
Naked truth!
It makes me surrender,
Powerless. Wretched. Afraid.
I'm like a ship broken up and lost at sea,
A caged bird longing to be set free,
A prisoner of the dark,
I don't want to be alone,
The night is cruel,
It tortures me.
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Annette Kinglock-Murray
Quotes about the pain and suffering of feeling alone:
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
― Poppy Z.Brite
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou
“But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
― Calla Quinn
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa
“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”
― Deb Caletti
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