OK just found this website via stumbleupon (Gotta love SU) and this is a spur of the moment poem just to say hi and introduce myself to the community.

This poem is about my recent struggle with depression and it's culmination in a suicide attempt (Don't worry it failed and I'm moving uphill now). Basically, through all the drama i almost tried again the next night after attempt 1 failed, but instead I called a counselling line and was told the same thing I'd heard a million times: "You've got to love yourself before you can expect someone else to love you".
This night it finally made sense.

Through all my counseling etc... I'd never really let it be about my true self. I'd go along with the line that 'I was a good person', but I never applied it to me; I applied it to a projected image of myself, I believed i could convince others I was a good person, but i thought it was all just good acting. I never challenged my self-negativism. The idea of loving-myself finally became clear, and I realised I hadn't in a long time.

So as horrible as suicide is, and I'm glad I failed, I'm ever so grateful for the lesson I learned, which is what this poem is about.