Trigger Warning
If I can help
just one person by saying,
life is worth living,
the pain is worth feeling,
to see what tomorrow brings,
there may be light
and other things
that can give you pause,
and know you are worthy
and that there is just cause
to keep staying the course,
even though it feels forced
and not what your mind
thinks it wants to do.
But no matter what you think
people love you
and want you here. They do.
So stay.
Through the pain
and the it doesn’t matter
and people won’t care
and my life won’t get better,
I know those feelings
I feel them too,
I get you’re doing what you wanted to do.
I also know it’s the saddest of choices, it’s true.
I’d rather you still be here,
feeling blue,
so we can talk about it
and see what we can do,
not to make things better
but so you can keep being you.
Because all of us who have tried
sit silent
overwhelmed with
what it feels like inside
to be there
in that moment
and grateful to still
be here in this one.
Because it is so painful
and deep
to feel so unworthy to live
and that secret to keep,
and for that success to be real for some
makes me feel numb,
and want to hold and help anyone
who has gone there and won.
Every time I think it’s over
it’s not really done
and out of the blue will
will come another one
pounding at my heart
wanting me to come
and I grasp for the light
to let love win.
Can we begin to see clearly
what is happening again
and always and all around
so another soul won’t leave too soon
and hope for living can be found,
deep within all this pain
unafraid of the conversation
again and again.
Lady Beastie
This is an amazingly profound poem, LB, and if it helps anyone who reads it, then that’s a blessing🐘
Thank you for sharing your vulnerable emotions with us, and we’re a better place for having you here with us🐞