TEARS HURT MORE THAN BLOOD

Sometimes you don't know what a person is going through until it's too late.

Hand on the mouth, 

Trying not to shout.

Taking shallow breaths,

Calming yourself down.

(Wipe the tears from your cheeks,

Don't worry; you will succeed.

Get up, get dressed,

There's nothing to stress.)

The silence prevails,

So does the gloom.

The tears fall,

The sobbing intensifies.

Reaching for the blade, 

Building up the courage

To make a move and fade.

So you can finally let go of the emotional baggage.

Feeling the cold metal in your hand,

You think about everything that led you here.

Losing everyone as quick as slipping sand,

Everything's too much to bear.

The positivity in you ended long ago,

Since then, you were going with the flow.

But now you're drained,

Your face is pained, and your voice strained.

Slowly you slice your wrist,

You let your arm fall with a thud;

That's when you realize that the tears still hurt more than blood.

Author's Note

This is something I wrote almost a year ago.

Reviews

[light and ashes]

This is really good.......

[Yashika]

Thank you so much for reading and your kind words🤝

[light and ashes]

You're welcome :)

[bri]

I love this. Such a powerful and impactful ending. :)

[bri]

And the title is amazing. It conveys this type of pain perfectly.

[Yashika]

My bonehead figured out the title months after completing the poem.😂
Thank you for taking out time to read and review.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Ps sorry didn’t mean to rave on about it all
Great poem
Keep writing ✍️
I see your friends request I’ll respond !! X

[Yashika]

Haha, it's completely okay.
thank you for reading and for your kind words, I appreciate you taking out time for this🤝

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Hi 🙋‍♀️ I found this hard to read the words of slicing wrist
Close friend and also sister both ended their lives but attempted this way unsuccessfully a few times but successful in other ways in end too gruesome to recall for me I block it out
To get to the level of knife to skin as so many do must be at the lowest despair
I feel for all who do and wish them help
Life is so hard for so many
It’s tragic
I hope if it was you you are healing
If not you it’s about others and I feel for them all
Thanks 🙏

[Yashika]

I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you're doing okay now.
Yes, I agree to get to this level, one must be in the worst of times.

[augustus]

A terribly sad poem and one which reflects a great deal of mental illness at this time of lockdown!

[Yashika]

Thank you for taking out your precious time to read and review🤝

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I think of Sylvia Plath...screaming out of the pain she felt inside. But no one heard, no one really listened...
and the cries went unheeded and she eventually found peace in her kitchen, gas on, mouth into the sheet...
letting go of the pain, letting go of life.
there is much intensity and honesty in this write.
those of us who have been in this place, understand the despair so desperately...
j.

[Yashika]

Ah, Sylvia Plath, that was a horrifying incident. Just thinking how much pain and hurt she must have had inside to do such a thing to herself. Yet, no one cared enough to help. It's always AFTER a tragic event takes place that a person understands the intensity of it.
Thank you for reading and reviewing 🤝

[Cyprian Van Dyke]

Powerful, words with so much emotion. So many go thru things like this and come out of such things only thru failure of hitting rock bottom. I think your poem shows this well at the end. tyfs

[Yashika]

Thank YOU for taking out time to read and review🤝

[Chris Shaw]

Quite a heavy piece here which describes the desperation that occurs when depression consumes. Descriptive writing. Much needs to be done to help souls who suffer so before it is too late. I sincerely hope this is a fiction write Yashika.

Chris

[Yashika]

I prefer not to reveal that. But thank you so much for taking out time to read and review 🤝*handshake emoji* (just in case you're unable to see the emoji)

[Chris Shaw]

The handshake very much appreciated. Thank you Yashika.

[ved]

surely I can feel it. maybe you wrote it a year ago but it smells still fresh and pain reflects in it

[Yashika]

The pain reflects since it was heartfelt and it doesn't go away so easily... not in a year, for sure

[Tepo]

a very difficult subject to take on
I tried it myself with "note"
You covered it very well Yashika
Keep em coming

[Yashika]

i guess it's easier to write about something when you're going through the same. Thank you for reading and reviewing