Tag: suicide

• Hanging over the Edge

  

  My toes hang over the edge. Gripping. I’m not ready to fall, though I can feel it’s happening. Unsteady, wobbling, leaning forwards  into the depths. xxx I know you are ready to catch me. But I don’t know if you can handle the weight of my fall. The heaviness of the burden  as I land.…

  deloreswillow

  22nd Mar 2023

  Poem

  anger, cant catch me, darkness, delores willow, depression, depths, fall, family, feeling lost, giving up, hanging, hurt, jumping, life, low, struggling, suicide, untamed poet, waiting to jump, wobbling

• Pondering

  

  Smoke curls around my head. Pink Gin sits on the glass table in front of me. I take a sip, coolness gliding down my throat. I inhale, smoke hits my lungs. xxx I ponder on today’s conversation. xxx My mum, discussing a neighbour who took their life only yesterday. She sits and looks at me.…

  deloreswillow

  15th Feb 2023

  Poem

  alone, contemplate, delores willow, drinking, family, feelings, harsh, life, opinions, poetry, pondering, remian numb, smoking, suicide, talking, together, understand life

• Do It Differently

  

  I’m angry at you. I don’t even know you, but I’m so angry. xxx While I understand that the depths of life have swallowed you up, you had no other option. It got too much and that, was your only way out, you didn’t have to do it like that. xxx Images will never leave…

  deloreswillow

  4th Jan 2023

  Poem

  children, death, delores willow, dont judge, hurt, life is hard, loss, no way out, not living, other peoples lives, poetry, suicide, why would you do that, work