Hey, so you know, this contains some graphic bits about self-harm, so please don't read it if it will trigger you. Thanks! -SR

Hate self
Cut
Hate self
Cut

 

The cycle continues
It never stops
But then one day
My family puts me
In a Loony Bin

 

I realize I have a problem
I know I need to stop
I begin to recover
Not knowing what I
Will soon discover
But knowing I want to recover

 

Later that year
I relapse
And cut through my skin
My sister finds out
And her face
Is viciously pained

 

From then on I realized
How much my actions
Changed what others felt
And did

 

I wanted to stop
To help my friends
My sister and my fam'ly

 

I became addicted
To something new
Right then

 

But this time it was
Okay to do
Or at least
I think it is.

 

I began to help
And help and help
All the people I could find

 

I helped those and saved those
In danger or not
Enemy or my friend

 

If I could change
Just one little thing
I would change someone's life

 

I would help them to live
Give them a chance
To try it once again

 

I would save their life
And they would save more
And so many lives would be saved
Fewer broken families
Fewer shattered hearts
And more
Still
Beating
 

ba dum
ba dum
ba dum
ba dum
ba dum
ba dum

 

Not just a number
Not another suicide
Or another lost soul
But one more family
One more heart

Just one life
At a time.