The Will To Survive
Will to survive
A tale of survivors guilt
or heroism do not with i begin
But rather with the opposite
of willing not to live
My nieces boyfriends brother
hung himself on Christmas day
And all i thought afterwards
was surely at some point right
up until he tied the knot and
placed it around his neck
Was how he found the strength
of will to do it
And how at no point leading up
to it he similarly could not summon
up the same force of will to undo it
As if only half the will and courage
that took was matched in equal
measure by the willingness to survive
Contemplating suicide would not have
been an option in the first place
So why and what's the defining reason
between him and those in far worse
dire consequence and situation
Who summon forth the strength of
will to overcome survive and tell
Than those who loose the will to live
in defiance of all reason
I suppose the reason is the very
reason itself and whether or not
If it's reason deemed worthy
enough for the mind to survive
in order to get back
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