Sad Poems
Verses that don't rush the grief.
These poems don't try to resolve sadness into a lesson - they describe it accurately, whether that's the loneliness of a crowded room or the unremarkable last time you saw someone. For a shorter expression of the same feeling, see Quotes.
There is a chair that holds the shape of you,
a hollow where you used to be,
the room still hears your voice in corners
and in the silence left for me.
Gone too soon—that phrase says nothing,
it is...
When it rains I do not need to explain myself
to anyone—the sky has done it for me,
it pours out what I cannot put to words,
it weeps with democratic frequency.
There is a comfort in the rain's not...
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I keep the words I didn't say
in a room inside my chest,
they rattle in the nighttime hours
when everything else is at rest.
I should have said: I love you more than this,
I should have said: you...
I did not know it was the last time,
the last time would have looked like any day—
there was nothing in that ordinary moment
to suggest you were already on your way.
We said the ordinary things,
we parted...
Friendship Poems
6I was surrounded but alone,
which is the loneliness that cuts the most—
not the empty room at midnight
but the crowded room where you're a ghost.
Every laugh around me was not mine,
every conversation closed before I came,...
Grief is a winter with no fixed end date,
no forecast, no reliable spring,
it comes and goes by rules you didn't write
and refuses to answer to anything.
Some days it lifts for hours at a stretch
and you...
The photograph is fading at its edges,
the faces blurring into sepia tone,
and I am frightened of the day I cannot
find your features on my own.
Memory is not the stable thing we think it,
it rewrites with...
