Do you know what it looks like
or how it sounds
despair is silent
suffocates, drowns
*
smug, thoughtless people
too much on their minds
close up their hearts
to the hard, undefined
*
Suicide isn’t a word, a feeling
it’s an unwelcome place
a vacuum that sucks you
life is displaced
*
vacant and shallow
A terrible hole
only one exit sign
death rings its toll
*
emotions are fragile
frail like a bud
other times happy
this fix beyond any hug
*
outside’s a deception
“Oh, yes I’m okay”
tomorrow she’s hanging
thin string, there she sways
******
Do you know the signs of suicide?
“Sure, I took a class once in College”
You will only know if you ask hard questions
if you stand night time vigils
if you love without judgement
if you sacrifice your time
even then the signs are easy to covert…
My best friend hung herself at 20. I still ache.
Another close friend had the poison researched and set aside. One glass was all it would have taken.
My daughter almost took her life. I would beg from 3000 miles away for family, someone to help – so I got on a plane. Courage in the end saved her!!!
If you are going under for the third time, ask for help!!!
