the Ever-Awaiting Response to the Most Rhetorical Words That Can Be Written

Suicide's responses to all the letters written...

My darlings,

why do you disturb me?

Why do you wish me

to clip your wings 

so early in this life,

why wouldn't you want to fly?

Ave Maria,

look at the mess to clean.

That's not up to me!

If you had stayed to see

the look upon their faces

and the water in their eyes 

I think you may have 

changed your mind

It's too late now to spare you now,

but what do I have to gain,

one less life to take.

One less unsettled soul

to grip by the talons 

and drag away

No, I wish you had only

thought a bit

I speak not for myself,

who can either do with or without,

I speak for those hurting 

in your absence

Yes, I know how you felt

I felt it too in my time

of life, perished I am now

as well, fallen to the same

weakness; I was the first

but not the last...

Author's Note