Sometimes
You're traveling
a highway, the only road
you've ever known,
and wham! A semi
comes from nowhere
and rolls right over you.
Sometimes
you don't wake up.
But if you happen
to, you know things
will never be
the same.
Sometimes
thats not
so bad.
Sometimes
lives intersect,
no rhyme, no reason,
except, perhaps,
for a passing semi.
TRIAD
Three
Three
separate highways
intersect at a place
no reasonable person
would ever want to go.
Three
lives that would have
been cut short, if not
for hasty interventions
by loved ones. Or Fate,
Three
people, with nothing
at all in common
except age, proximity,
and a wish to die.
Three
tapestries, tattered
at the edges and come
unwoven to reveal
a single mutual thread.
THE THREAD
Wish
you could turn off
the questions, turn
off the voices,
turn off all around.
Yearn
to close out
the ugliness, close
out the filthiness,
close out all light.
Long
to cast away
yesterday, cast
away memory,
cast away all jeopardy.
Pray
you could somehow stop
the uncertainty, somehow
stop the loathing,
somehow stop the pain.
Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the fun to your chest.
This is from the beginning of the book Impulse
by Ellen Hopkins which is one of my favorite
books, As you start reading it you get intrigued
and don't want to put the book down. You fall in
love with the characters even though they are
suicidal with many problems behind it you get
to know them and get in their minds and see a
side of them no one else sees.
Conner ( rich kid, a product of the elite society, and his attempt to shoot himself in the chest has his parents more concerned about what the neighbors will think rather than what is troubling their son) Tony (molested by one of his mother's many boyfriends until he was driven to a desperate act of violence that landed him six years in juvenile lockup at the tender age of eight, where he was continually sodomized by other males. Tony plays up his gayness... but there's a part of him he discovers through the course of the novel that he had never had the opportunity to explore before. He's only ever loved one person, and when that person died, Tony found himself homeless on the streets. His chosen method of taking a final exit was a cocktail of booze and pills) and Vanessa (Self-diagnosed with the same bipolar disorder she inherited from her mother, Vanessa cuts herself to balance her moods. When her boyfriend breaks things off with her, she cuts... and cuts and cuts until her left wrist is just left dangling) all patients at the Aspen Springs facility. They're all there for the same reason that most of the other teens are: they all tried to kill themselves and connect with one another in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
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