Poems by Me

Help

I need help

I'm drowning in my words

I'm drowning in my thoughts

Make it stop

Help me out

I want it to stop!

I want to feel

No more pain

Hand it off

To how many people?

How many people

Would my suicide affect?

Hundreds of friends

Hundreds of family

All mourning the loss

Of what?

Of who?

A girl who's lost herself?

In the rush of society?

A girl who couldn't be free?

No

A girl who wanted

To make everyone so happy

That they drowned her out

And forgot the person

Who helped them out

Of their own fear

Of their own anxiety

Trampled to death

By their cold heartless ignorance

Thinking to themselves...

I wonder how she's doing

I wonder if she's okay

Yet not doing anything about it

Not reaching out

No texts from anyone

Asking her

"How are you?"

"Are you doing okay?"

So that means nobody cares right?

That means everyone forgot about her?

The next morning

Headlines read:

Teenage Girl Hangs Herself!

They all start to question

Why would she?

How could she do this?

She seemed happy...

She was always so smiley...

Was it my fault?

Could I have helped her?

Was it something I said to her?

They blame themselves

Passing on the pain

To hundreds of others

When she could have gotten help

She could have cut the line dead

Instead spreading it like wildfire

The pain she only ever knew

Spreading it more

And more

With every new headline

With every new smiling face

Different beginnings

Different stories

Same pain

Same ending