Annie and Suicide

I didn’t turn the water on

Or remove my clothes

But I lay on the shower floor

 

When I was 6 years old

I left a message

On my grandmother’s answering machine

I sang

“The sun will come out tomorrow”

 

It’s astonishing

How you never realize

How many household objects

You could use

To kill yourself

 

I removed the blade from my razor

And I let it sashay

Across the limpid cerulean wires

Of my willing wrist

 

I heard once in a movie

That if you cut side to side

You won’t die

 

So I traced up and down

 

I shouldn’t be surprised

It makes sense

That the worst pain I ever felt

Only came

Upon hurting you

 

The sun will come out

Tomorrow

Reviews

[noahbrannigan]

this is really real. I can see why writing is your passion

[The Twin Arenas]

I like that bit about hearing about it in a movie. What movie was that? Everyone has seen that movie, somehow.

[Duckey]

So sad, and so real. Very well written.