My First Mental Health Poems To Inspire You

I’ve decided to go ahead and start writing my own mental health poems. I’ve wanted to do it for some time but kept telling myself that I didn’t have the time. The thing is, I used to (embarrassingly) write my own songs. I even recorded a few of them. It was a wake-up call to have to admit to myself that my voice sucked. But, I never lost my interest in using words to create something of meaning.

That’s why I started writing on this blog. My natural need to create pushed me until I mixed it in with a subject that I’m passionate about and that I have experienced a lot myself. I remain a fan of rhyming words and assorting them into something interesting and creative. So, read on to see my first mental health poems. Some mental health poems rhyme and others, well, are a little more ambitious.

Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed them, they resonated or if you’d like to share your own.

Mental Health Poem #1 – An Old Friend

“Here we go again, you’re driving me round the bend.

Something comfortable, as familiar as an old friend.

I have been here many times before, sinking in my seat.

The world keeps moving as you play on repeat.

It’s like you’re a part of me now, as if we are two of the same.

I long for peace of mind but you just stick in my brain.

I don’t need you but you seem to need me.

Forever present, fear and anxiety.”

This poem is a reflection on how anxiety has followed me through life and how the feeling has become almost inseperable from me.

Mental Health Poem #2 – Better Days

“The grey blue sky still moves, the birds still fly,

Noone seems to feel this way, so why do I?

Time is spent and more time is thrown away,

Hours never to be claimed back, the currency is pain.

Happiness seems so alien, so distant,

But sadness is constant, ever so frequent.

Today I’m angry and there’s noone to blame,

I cannot see them yet but still I hold on for better days.”

This poem is a reflection on sitting on my own, feeling as if the world is bleak yet how I still hold out for a positive outcome.

Poem #3 – The Thinker

“I am the overthinker, the one that can’t keep still,

I move around in my sleep, perhaps I need a pill.

I need a detox for my head, I need to starve it of these thoughts,

Maybe I will never change, I’m anchored in these ports.

I am the overthinker, the one with something wrong,

These things I can’t stop thinking, when will they just be gone?”

This poem is a reflection on the overthinking I have done many times. Forever wishing for it to stop, I sometimes can’t help myself.

Mental Health Poem #4 – Everybody Does It

“Everybody does it, eveverybody cries.

Everybody does it, everybody lies.

It seems nobody’s is perfect, It seems nobody’s wise.

Everybody does it, everyone gets down,

And everybody does it, everybody frowns.

But when it seems as if we can’t, we can turn it round.

Have you wonderd why you do it? why you bask in pain?

Because my friend we’re only human, you and I were born this way.”

This poem is a reflection and my acceptance that we are not perfect and are at the mercy of our biology in terms of our emotions.

Poem #5 – Good Enough As Me

“Roads seem longer when you’re older.

I want to seem brave and I want to act bolder.

Trees down sway like they used to, the sun doesn’t shine like it should do.

Am I any better than I once was or am I still just young, stupid and lost?

Should I start acting like they want me to be?

Or should I start believeing that I’m good enough as me?”

This poem is a reflection on a sense of lack of confidence and overcoming the feeling of not feeling good enough.

Mental Health Poem #6 – Sometimes

“Sometimes I feel strange and sometimes I just freak.

Sometimes I feel strong and sometimes I feel weak.

Sometimes I get angry, I can’t even tell you why.

Sometimes I get saddened, I’m no good at these goodbyes.

Sometimes I go quiet, I get stressed by all the shouting.

What’s with all the resentment? I’m so sick of the doubting.

Sometimes I feel like running and never turning back,

Sometimes I feel like hiding and doing only that.

Sometimes smiling doesn’t feel like it once did,

I’m bitter, tired and fed up, just want to blow my lid.

Sometimes I’m just full of joy, the stars are all so hopeful,

I feel like it’s a new beginning, there is so much potential.”

This poem is a reflection of the many emotions we find ourselves weaving in and out of on a daily basis.

Poem #7 – Let Go

“When you feel trapped just take a pause,

You’ll likely never find a cause.

What can’t be helped you soon will know,

That you will have to let them go.

The weight you carry is in vein,

It is a voluntary pain.

Accept what is to see yourself free,

Let it be, let it be, let it be.”

This poem is a reflection on letting go of what we cannot control.

Mental Health Poem #8 – Me, Myself

“How do I define myself and who I want to be,

when born into a life so clueless, scared and under seige?

I’m not moving yet I’m floating as if not in control,

I live in constant memory still empty, never whole.

I want to be the one they call, the one they can rely on,

yet I push myself I’m further away, soon I will be gone.

Autumn leaves they die and fall, a cycle oh so strong,

I think I am a part of this and yet I feel so wrong.

Move they said, just move, a cure for all the madness,

Nothing seems to hold my feet and yet there is a sadness.

A reflection on myself and who I want to be, trying to move past what seems to be blocking my path.

Poem #9 – Calm

“Calm yourself and settle down, there’s nothing wrong right now.

What seemed so bad is fleeting, it’s floating like a cloud.

Be calm, relax, you owe it to yourself,

Take a breathe and just remember, nothing is as it seems.

You, yes you, you’re braver than you know,

If only you believed it more, onwards you would go.

So calm yourself, be calm, be still,

Tomorrow is another day and conquer it you will.”

This poem is a reflection ontaking the time to remember that everything is okay and much of the time we are just overthiking.