The Road to Recovery

It's never as simple as "cheer up", "others have it worse"

It's never as easy as "get up", "do something"

It's harder and harder with each passing day

It's tougher and tougher; I know I'm not okay

I swear I'm not lazy, I swear I am trying, please believe me

I know I am dying...

I am not this sickness

I am not this blight

I am hope and I am light.

I am love and I have lost

"Suicide is selfish, it isn't worth the cost"

Don't you think that I know that?

Do you really think guilt will suddenly cure me?

No

  Stop

    Get out

      Leave

            If you've never been through this- and I hope you don't, I hope you never get to know what it's like, when you can't find the light.

This poem is about: 
Me

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