Notes From An Aborted Suicide Attempt

2012 Image: Detail from an original collage by Carlton Carr

I cannot live
with the ceaseless sorrow
that surrounds me
the hollowed out hopelessness
the isolation
that my banishment
has brought me to

I cannot see a future
with this bond
that binds me to you
these unforgiving shackles
that suspend me
in a world
I don't belong to

And yet

I cannot die
with all these words inside me
the flights of thoughts
that compel me to believe
that tiny seed of hope
that still clings to
my unlived life
my broken promises
my dead dreams
of you

Something holds me back
a voice that breathes inside me
whispers
do not do this thing
that you have planned
to do

Reviews

[Tim Piotrowicz]

listen to the whisper! live on! there is that small seed of hope that wants to grow and blossom into something wonderful! this poem made me feel. good job.

[Carlton Carr]

Thank you Tim. A year has gone by since I wrote this and I am glad that I did listen.