Death.
Suicide.
When most people hear these,
They think a series of awful words:
Sad;Terrible;Tragic;Heartbreaking;
And worst of all... Selfish
How be it selfish
To tell this world you're finished?
Finished with its hurt, its pain, its heartbreak?
They seem to believe
That you're only thinking of yourself
Whenever you... decide to end it
They believe that you are only thinking of all the horrible things that's happened to you
And not of all the people that always seem to be around you
That you are so caught up within yourself
That you don't even realize who you'd be hurting in the process
But, see, that's the thing
Have they ever thought about
How long this has been going on?
How many signs they'd missed?
Or chosen to ignore?
How many times that person had opened up to them,
And they'd put it off as them just being
A stupid kid?
Had they known all along
That something was going on?
I think that the people who
Call suicide victims selfish
Are really just trying to mask their own venomous traits
Their guilt for not doing something
For just putting off the child's emotions as
Teenage hormones
I said all that to say
If you EVER hear someone call
A suicide victim selfish
They're just trying to cover up their own
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WELCOME LK ~ Thanks for an excellent first poem ~ which will make all who read it THINK ! I'm 33 so I'm old enough to have Friends & Family who have committed (or tried to commit) SUICIDE. It is very painful but I can say (hand on heart) that I have never called them SELFISH although many did. My first thought is always ~ WHAT MORE could I have done to prevent it. SUICIDE is always a "cry for help" and if it is unsuccessful we should rush to their aid with TLC and not JUDGEMENT. I agree with your prognosis SELFISH is the WRONG word. Thanks for caring and sharing ~ Yours empatheticaly BRIAN
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
So if not Selfish,then Coward ?!
But Suicide is certainly NOT a Heroic Act.
That wasn't exactly what i was trying to say. You're right there's nothing heroic about it. But I do believe that the people who put down people who commit suicide are really just trying to mask their own guilt. I think that maybe the person did have courage, but maybe they'd been hanging on for too long. Or maybe they expressed themselves and nobody took them seriously. My point is my poem wasn't to tell people that suicide is okay. Because it's NOT in ANY circumstance. My poem was written to the people who know something or have a feeling about someone/something. They should act on that feeling or knowledge.
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