"Embracing Death"

No one dares to speak the word aloud.

Suicide-

the end of teenage monotony.

We all walk through life, our heads in a cloud

of our own pain and misery.

Does anyone else even matter today?

We wander around, uncaring and cold,

So why, I ask,

do you delay the inevitable?

Death sometimes beckons

from afar

Tempting, taunting, enticing

Come, the whispers say,

Escape now, this very day

And then time stops

As we decide

Shall I go

or shall I hide?

It seems life has no meaning

Nevermore-

Painted pictures of memories-

Some you wish you did not recall-

flash before exhausted vision.

Is it worth it?

Can I fall?

Now that it's over,

will they miss me at all?

Of course not, the whispers purr

with a peaceful smile

I leap into the waiting embrace

of Death.

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