This year, the second day of NSPW is also World Suicide Prevention Day. I was planning to say something more eloquent than this, but my thoughts have blurred together and I just can't seem to express the depth of emotions I wish to convey in words. With a knot in my throat and a sigh on my lips, here's a poem written from leftover love songs and broken bits of my heart. Suicide prevention shouldn't be reduced to just solving a problem. Suicide prevention is about saving a person's life. I'll never forget the reason my heart's still beating. Please, stay alive.
A Lonely Tragedy
Days slip away
Golden sunbeams fade
Your smile is but a memory
Trying to remember whether
We are living to love or to lose
Passing through lonely streets
They’re full of people but so empty
We’re hollow beings now
These lives are never enough
So alone still
Beautiful serenity
Seems an impossible feat
Just a dream out of reach
Always, forever
Too weak to grasp, to reach
Feelings dissolve into numbness
Nothing matters because
We can’t feel
Anything anymore anyway
But suddenly it’s cold
Winter wind sweeps down upon us
Leaves us shivering
Cracked and bleeding lips
Trembling hands
Fragile life
Heart hanging on a thread
Barely there
Frozen tears, pale cheeks
They’ve forgotten now
Tragedy pierces the heart
Looking back
There’s so much to wish for
I want to teach you to remember
Believe in hope
Rescue will come to
Save me
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