Don't Fall

Day 4: I actually had to go and look at my previous posts today to remember what day I was on. Day 4, I never thought I'd make it this far. I decided that today I will post a poem. I wrote this poem after reading the stories of other self-injurers on online forums. Please don't read it if you're sensitive and are easily upset. Afterall, this is a poem about cutting. I appreciate criticism as long as it is kind and helpful. What bothers me is when people criticize the style I write in, saying I should use more metaphors. I like to write in "plain talk" and not so abstract that the reader doesn't know what I'm talking about. Other then that, all critiques are welcome. Sometimes I rhyme in my poems, sometimes I don't. I don't like being a slave to the rhyme but if words happen to match up, then that is fine with me.

Don't Fall

We’re all so sick, I can’t

believe I’m saying we

something I said

I’d never be

but let’s just say it

and get it out of the way.

Cutter, that was hard to admit.

When I read all your stories

and I see how we’re

all just going into frenzies

so angry, no longer demure.

Arms, stomach, legs, thighs

we all have a favorite part

to carve out our whys.

Can’t break these ties

with our knives, razors,

our special friends, we can’t

bring our destructive relationships

to an end.  To think we’re all

bleeding that same blood and pain

makes me sad that someone

else is feeling this way.

Do you ever want to cut

so bad your hands are shaking?

Just itching your wrist drives

you crazy as you imagine all

those veins popping out

so easy to slice through.

All the blood that would

come, man that sounds so

good, I bet you're dying for a

fix right about now. You might

even get out the knife and hold it a bit,

push it into your skin but not hard enough

to bleed, you just need to take it to the edge

before you decide to it’s okay to snuff

out the desire and step away from the ledge

that tumbles down to the bottomless

pit of guilt, a place you're sick of ending up.

I hope you guys liked it. Please leave me comments with your opinion on it if you can.