Suicide

Friends make memories 
Love ones draw smiles on hearts
The beautiful days created are hard to wipe 
Great and happy moments stay longer than birthmarks

But what happens when you lose a love one? 
When you are betrayed by the one in heart
Just when you shared laughs and smiles and love 
And Just when you bid her goodbye 
Just when you bid her goodnight 

What if she took it serious?
What if that was the last time? 
What if when she said she was going to bed 
She really meant to put her soul to sleep 
To close her eyes from our dark world and 
Open in the other side of town?

What if all along 
She was crying to you?
Silently wailing in your ears
What if every call was for you to answer 
To ask her how she was doing?
What if your duty was just to call and check up
And to provide care like she's your patient and you her nurse?

What if your hands were shorter and she had to embrace her soul in the cold arms of death? 
What if all it takes to prevent anyone from committing suicide 
Is just a smile, an ear to listen and a voice to comfort?

But am I my brother's keeper? 
Are you? 
So is that why we un-look and lash their insecurities with cane (cain)?
Then why do we seem to care when we hear their blood calling for redemption 
Like we are some form of salvation and need an exemption from the feeling of guilt?

There are a lot of people in depression
Repressing their happiness and their will to live
why don't we lend them a listening ear
to hear their cry for help

Why don't we give them a reason to live
A change of mind
why don't we call them back, to align
And why don't we call them mine
Why won't you call them yours

I just want you to know that 
Mental instability is a deadly weapon killing a lot of innocent souls
Let’s look out for each other 
Lets see one another as our own
Our brother, sister, mother, father, our loved one
Together let’s win the war against suicide 
Before it kills us.

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