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darkness

i look at my wrists.

scarred.

my scars tell stories.

they are there for a reason.

reasons.

my family is in pain.

i know they would be better if i wasn't around.

i look back at the mirror.

i hit my reflection

unhappy with what i see.

my knuckles bleed.

i sit on the cold bathroom floor and everything around me becomes darkness.

pitch black darkness around me.

i look around lost.

your voice from somewhere in the darkness .

i follow it.

tripping over my own feet.

i call out your name.

no response.

why are you doing this?

i fall to my knees.

i cry.

"stop it!"

i scream out to you.

i feel a touch on my shoulder.

my mother.

she hugs me and tells me a story.

i look at her confused still crying.

i look around me.

a hospital scene.

my family surrounds me.

the family that i have left.

my sisters stand before me crying.

i ask what happened and what was going on.

they tell me i atemptemted suicide.

i cried.

asking why and how.

then i was surrounded by darkness again.

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Published
Oct 7, 2011
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