Why Do I Try?

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"Why Do I Try?"   10 - 02 - 01



You know your world

hangs by the thread

I know your hopes

are nothing; dead

I try to pierce

your covered eyes

to deliver the truth

but still you hide

You balance your life

on the needle point

I try to save you

but to no avail, no hope

I tried so hard

to uncover the truth

I fell so hard

when you did the deed

I felt so guilty

Like I could have

--done something

I feel so alone

now that you are dead

--and gone



six feet under

your new home

a dozen roses

now I roam....

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Have you ever sat there(the sitting part is felxible), for a few minutes or over several months, and tried with no success to get someone happy, out of the pits and away from suicide??  I know a few who have... me included.  Damn, I am one big fuckin' hypocrite and selfish for the fact that I wish no harm yet I wish harm to myself... strange world we live in...

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twiztid_girl_'s picture

Wonderful... I really hear what its saying... and yea i know what its like to try and stop someone from committing suicide but then turning back and wishing harm on yourself. Its wierd how this world is.

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Josh- I have to say once more that you are such a talented writer. You bring feelings that I have felt for so long into poetry that is mesmorizing. I still compare you to the late Jim Morrison. Your poetry and his is so much alike (except I doubt that you made a poem called 'Lament to the Death of My Cock' LoL). I wrote a new poem on my site about the late, great George Harrison. I hope you read it and tell me what you think. See ya around, Leprechaun. Dawn aka Dark Slash