Suicide, my friends

You're broken and empy your mind is in shatters
You try to have reasons but your life is in tatters
You spare all the words and nobody knows
Nobody listens and everthing goes.
You try to stand up to the people who've wronged you
But they all turn away and the world looks down on you
You can't find the words and you're living in pain
And everything darkens and you're living in shame.
The war will go on but you've lost the battle,
Time is your horse and you're stuck in the saddle.
Your senses go dull and your heart beats slower
With every minute that passes your thoughts sink lower
You shed too many tears and you bleed every night
You take all the blame and you're living in fright.
People warn you that you should have told,
But after a while the telling gets old.
You can't say the words and you can't make the sound
You've dropped all your hints and they're scattered around.
Nobody listens and nobody cares,
Nobody knows you there's no one out there.
You take all the blame, you live on in shame,
Your family asks questions but you're numb from the pain
Your mind keeps going long into the night,
You spend quality time with your best friend the knife
Death is the one thing that you aren't denied-
Suicide, my friends.

You live up to the rumors that you're not all there
They were started by the people who don't even care.
You're sleeping in school and you never eat lunch
You're failing your classes because the numbers don't crunch
You're afraid that the next time you walk out the door
Will be the last time your feet walk on this floor
So you skip classes as much as you can
But you know if you're caught detention won't understand.
You don't hear the bells and you're late if you show up,
Your teachers all know you don't account for much.
You're not afraid to cry in the bathroom all day,
To cut your wrists in the stalls at what people might say.
You don't have a cold but you take too many meds
The Tylenol will lull you to death in your bed.
Finally your parents notice your mood,
They see if you eat that you poison your food.
They notice you're coughing up blood in the sink,
It's a little too late, though, what'd they think?
At the hospital all that you know is it's done
The pain is over and it's time to have fun.
Will you stop breathing with a cough or a stutter,
Or will you have enough time to make an audible mutter?
You'll tell them all how much pain you were in
And how you're so glad that you let the pain win
Because now you don't have to look at tommorow,
It's never coming, your time was already borrowed.
The doctors work to keep up your heart,
But the moment they'll fail is the moment they'll start.
You smile and laugh as you draw your last breath-
Suicide, my friends.

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Maybe if the world wasn't such a bitter place
Maybe we'd all have a smile on our face
All of the people who are going through pain
It's always their fault, right, they're the ones in your way.

Maybe if the world wasn't such a bitter place,
If you could spare them the pain with a smile on your face...
Maybe if we turned to the teens in the schools,
Instead of blaming their frowns on their wish to be cool
We could look in their heads and know what they're thinking-
Suicide, drugs, illegal drinking.
Take a look, a glance, see what you may,
How the average 16 year old has drug money to pay
Or how that girl wearing black has the scars on her wrist,
How that kid with the cheesy smile is pissed.
See if the world is the same to you as to them,
And realize how bitter it all is in the end.
Save a few lives and offer some help-
Stop the suicide, my friends.