I’ve been to the ledge, looking into an abyss certain that I wouldn’t be missed and even if one person did, they’d be better off in a world without me in it.
I’ve seen shadows creeping while I was almost sleeping halfway between waking and a dream, with a spiderlike scribble crawling across my blanket that I couldn’t smash or even shake off.
I’ve been swept up in a manic moment, then began drowning in an endless pit, and almost died in it.
So many self-inflicted near misses, electric, pill bottle, and razor kisses but my body insisted on living when my mind wanted a quiet end to the painful buzzing.
Some say it gets better, and for me it did, some say all you got to do is keep trying to live, some day you will make it. It’s one struggle at a time.
But sometimes people go into those dark caverns and never come back. It’s not a beautiful death just a tragic final act.