Un-living

Mon, 06/23/2014 - 11:15 -- Kaylee

You live your life in a haze

Your parents believe it is just a phase

But it is too late: you've already turned to the blade

You find relief in the pain

Afterword, you feel ashamed

But you need this to stay sane.

 

 

 

30,000 in America die by their own hand every year

 

Too many unseen tears

 

Life is what you fear

 

Your purpose is unclear

 

Would anyone even care?

 

 

 

Suicide:

 

3rd leading cause of death for teens

 

Yet they still don’t see

 

They can’t hear your screams

 

And now you are breaking at the seams

 

Why is everyone so mean?

 

 

 

Unrelenting are the voices in your head

 

Reminding you that no one would care if you were dead

 

You lay still in your bed: Contemplating life and death

 

 

 

What’s worse?

 

Feeling everything at once…

 

Or nothing at all

 

You want silence: one solution is what you see

 

You grab your pills/gun/knife

 

No one will care anyway?

 

 

 

Six people

 

Your death will intimately affect AT LEAST six

 

But your life is still not a quick fix

 

And before you decide life or death: Remember those six

 

And please don’t let this be your last breath

 

Not while you’re in a dance with death.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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Comments

Amazing Ambreanna

Really powerful work. 

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