Suicide Prevention
I think we all have our own ways of escaping.
Some of us use drugs, highs to hide the pain-
Some of us work, and work, and work
Or drink and drink and drink or both-
Some of us sleep, or don’t sleep at all.
Or sleep with others,
Or sit quiet with music playing somewhere in the background-
But I think, everyone just tries to escape.
I think that is how we all deal nowadays.
We run away.
We smile without our eyes.
We smile not for ourselves but as a reassurance for others.
I just laugh louder.
We take our pills.
We sit in rooms with a therapist or say we don’t need one,
Like I can find my friend at the bottom of the next bottle,
Like I can find my friend between my sheets
Between two words strung together
The way she used to say them.
9/6/2017
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