Suicide is the 1 type of death that has really a stigma connected to it. It brings with it a feeling of shame and betrayal. It is not the exact same as stating to someone “My father died in a car crash” nor is it the exact same as stating someone died from a heart attack. Getting to clarify that someone took their personal life can be really a difficult factor to do as we have no explanation as to why this dreadful occurance took location.

Suicide amongst youthful men is presently growing really substantially about the world and I hope that by studying my poem individuals can see the effects that suicide has on these that are left behind.

I have devoted my poem below to the memory of my father the late James Evans who sadly took his personal life on the 29th October 1990. May his soul find eternal peace.

Suicide

The power to supress

The discomfort and the reduction

The tears and the saddness

The grief inside

Lying there

Dormant

Rest please, oh sleep

The memories suppressed

No power to offer

With the discomfort that you caused

The gap no 1 can fill

Your selfish act

Leaves me broken

Frightened to love

Frightened to live

Through suppression I survive

Suicide not only killed you

Copyright © Amanda Evans

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