Suicide Attempt Survival
Loving to all around her, happy with life
She started to change, slowly at first you see
It was painful to see the sadness, her strife
She wanted to die, her life was so empty
Nothing that was said registered in her brain
Seems that she was always living in the rain
One day she tried to take her life with some pills
Trying to dull the pain on the window sill
She survived the desired encounter with death
Living to face a new day without sadness
And now with a secure new outlook and breath
The dark won’t be so dark within the brightness
She has found hope in the near death ritual
She’s glad there won’t be a lonely burial
Now life resumes as she survives an ending
Out into life she brings love with her sending
Russell Sivey
Contest: Surviving After Suicide Attempts
Sponsor: Anne Currin
7/28/2013
Copyright © Russell Sivey | Year Posted 2013
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