Most Commented Sadness Poems (1,688)

I love my life
Because it is mine,
It was so kind
To me-
It smeared me
Like a snot on the wall.
It used
Its favorite trick:
When childhood ended -
It cut off my oxygen.
And now I lie like a fish
In the coastal mud

But here's what I think :
I see this world as it is!
I only ask - "slow down"
I only ask - "not now".
My life has taught me a secret :
"When someone feels pain,
The other one feels gain"
In the meantime I lie like a fish
In the coastal mud

The machines lined the labyrinth in rows
Lights, colors and animations all posed
In endless arrays of enticing sounds
Like children on turning merry-go-rounds

Some people can barely walk or breathe
Still coming in and taking seats beneath
The neon altars of chance, money and vice
All gathered together like a nest of mice

The draw of the elusions and a sum to win
Keeping the people in a polarized spin
Roundabouts in sheer tidal waves of hope
Not aware they are on a slippery slope

Participating for points to keep a status
In the all encompassing apparatus
Designed to become your new home
From its shadows you will not roam

Perceived as a beacon of true light
Serving the lonely slaves by night
Souls the darkest demons possess
Each slap of the buttons causing stress

Endless sounds of screams and elations
Winning money to calm the agitations
Still they file in like going to church
On a never-ending quest and search

Looking for the missing links in their life
Placating the unbearable internal strife
Never looking up, never seeing the above
Their misery resides in a lack of true love


© Jade Anjoun

What makes me feel so strange
On the other side of autumn?
Clouds of gray fur
Roll in the sky.
Life passes drop by drop.
You drifted into my life
Like a whirling leaf
From a branch.
As if someone lit a match
In the dark space.

The whole world fell apart
When you left
On the other side of autumn.
In your life I was just a page.
Everything is so temporary
And so strange
On the other side of autumn

Numb, that’s how I feel
Some say what’s the big deal
I can’t feel
I can’t smile
I can’t laugh

Numb thats
how I feel
Pleasure no longer
loving feelings lost
It hurts to talk
It hurts to walk

Numb thats how I feel
My eyes are open
Nothing to be seen
I can’t see the sky
It’s to hard to even try

Numb that’s how I feel
Phone rings
Knocks at the door
To much effort
I just lay on the floor

Numb that’s how I feel.

These wounds are deep inside me.
There is nothing you can see.
It's all internal bleeding,
That will be the death of me.

You've got my heart in wires
With barbs embedded deep.
A cut for everything you've said,
And one for every deed.

Yet the more I fight, the worse it gets,
My struggles are in vain.
You cannot see my suffering,
or feel this twisting pain.

Another strand, another barb
Another wound for me.
While you go on, unaware,
Living so blissfully.

Everyone chooses for itself
Woman, religion, road;
To serve a devil or the prophet,
Everyone chooses for itself
Everyone chooses on itself
The word for love and for a prayer.
Sword for duel, a sword for fight
Everyone chooses on itself
Everyone chooses on itself
Board and armor, staff and patches,
Measure of final payment
Everyone chooses on itself
Everyone chooses for itself.
I choose too — as I am able.
To anybody no claims I have.
Everyone chooses for itself

Now that I'm older
I have the script I know the lines
But the movie has been over
For such a long long time

For years you have walked beside another guy
And I have never entered your mind
That's what I get for being shy
Yes the movie has been over a long time

But now I would know my mark
I would know every cue
But I was rehearsing in the dark
All the time I was missing you

Softly the music plays and the credits roll away
My name is nowhere on the screen for anyone to find
And I have only one line left to say
The movie has been over a long time

Separate
No Equal
some feel
that is the way
it is suppose to be.
How can you say
that to me.
For did God make
you the judge
and the jury.
How can you decide
that for all that
you see.
For if you do not
open your eyes to
see the suttle
racism right in
front of you or me.
How can this be in
this new age of reality
It is 2013 not 1940.
Open everyone's eyes
to all the negativity.
Let God walk you through
to find the reality
that is suppose to be.

Today I saw you but you never knew my name
We both felt a connection, but then we left alone
We shared a laugh, a moment the same
I looked into your eyes and took that image home

An unexpected random meeting
I will not see you again
How cruel to think that feeling was fleeting
How one sweet moment can cause me pain

Today it seems will only taunt me
Why were you sent to captivate
Your eyes, your smile now to haunt me
One moment in time, a phantom fate

About a man name
FRED
but now he is dead