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MikkiMarie — Stand Against Suicide
Published: 2014-07-23 01:43:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 4814; Favourites: 283; Downloads: 0
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I know the pain is perhaps unbearable,But darling, please put down the blade.
Release your emotions through tears and smiles,
Rather than dreading these days.
Do it for the little girl, whose mother can’t be there,
Or for the boy whose father drank too much.
For the boy who can’t sit in elementary school,
Because the bruises from Daddy hurt to touch.
For the teenage girl lying face down in her bed,
Thinking, why can’t it all be done?
For the elderly man looking up at the stars,
Counting the days one by one.
Do it for the children who wonder, does it end?
For the ones who feel left on their own.
For the ones who think, maybe it wouldn’t be so hard
If I didn’t feel so left alone.
And finally, do it for one other person,
The person in front of these words.
Because you’ll never know how it gets better
When focusing on pain and hurt.
Live one more day, dear, for them and for you,
And I swear to you, problems will fade.
I know, for right now, it’s perhaps unbearable…
But darling,
Please put down the blade.
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very......very heartfelt and true....nice.
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Thank you very much, I appreciate it
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This really helped me you know , thank you for writing this
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oh my gosh...I love how u expressed the suicide feelings that people have. I am very proud of u.
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........when i read this i have two thoughts that totally are contradictory but they are my thoughts
1. You have a point there that some people will be sad if one dies and that one should always try to go trough hard times even when you have thoughts of suicide
...but on the other hand it is ones one life and what you do with it is actually your one decision so just telling one to think of other grief ...i find it unreasonable if that are the people that cause ones pain ,to just keep living for others it is no life and one becomes an empty shell in the end so if one dies sooner or later it actually does not matter
it is my opinion and the individual should just keep looking for there one reasons to keep on living XP
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I finished reading this, to find tears in my eyes. Its so beautiful and so true. you have a way with words many envy. thankyou
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Absolutely beautiful and bursting with truth!
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The nice repeats serve well as beginning and end lines, as ideas of what to expect as when you address the reader, and as a final plea for that reader to consider. As for the middle, it's incredible how many reasons you give people to live, whether for someone else or for themselves.
Personally, I can thank my lucky stars I've never had any clinical form of depression, and I absolutely respect anybody willing to take the time and effort to address such serious issues.
Hell, we lost one of our funniest comedians of the modern age to that horrible affliction. Words like these will make people see different, I'm positive about that.
A great piece and a strong soldier for the fight against depression. Well done! 
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This is very touching and amazing. This deserves a daily Deviation.
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I had to go through this with my cousin.....God I didn't know if she was gonna survive..
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This is perhaps the best literature piece I've seen about suicide. I know that sentence sounds wrong, but I mean it's filled with emotion and meaning. I seriously think that if someone who was considering suicide were to read this, they might just put down the blade.
Brilliant job.
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This is amazing. I'd like to invite you to join TheButterflyProject1 because I feel you'd be a great help and a great friend to those in need of a friend.
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That's a beautiful poem. You have truly touched me. I am suffering with cutting myself. I have for a long time and it's a tough battle. You have no idea how much this poem has encouraged me. Thank you and keep on writing. You are very talented and you really help people
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it is an awesome poem. thank you for the way you worded it so many people are condescending about suicide attempts but they don't know what it is really like and thank you for remembering all the people that will be left behind.
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This is such a great poem. It's so powerful and thought provoking and I'm sure readers will be/were moved to tears (I'm currently numb and I don't really feel anything when I'm like this). I don't have a single thing to criticize about it. Normally I'd complain the in-between rows don't rhyme with each other, but you made it work.
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This is empowering, emotional, and great. I love this piece, and I think you did well.
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This is beautiful, such as life is once the phase of Hell ends.
It's not worth it once you begin to experience the light.
Seriously a lovely, impactful piece.
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wow intense as ever!!! I have had those thoughts, but always think of everyone else first (story of my life lol) I also have a friend who , more often than not, has darker thoughts than me, and I simply tell her not to leave me in this world alone, that always helps as she finds it easier to talk to me than even her own mother (don't understand why, but hey! at least she has someone to talk to).
Awesome and awe inspiring piece of work, guys LOVE YOURSELVES AND THOSE AROUND YOU!! THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A SILVER LINING AND THAT ONE PERSON THAT CAN HELP YOU!!
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Wow... This bought tears to my eyes. 
Very well written.
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Thank you for writing this. My sister committed suicide last year in April, and I have came close several times myself. I am sure that this poem has helped more people than you'll ever know....thank you very much for that.
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Thank you. I can't say anything, but thank you. This poem means a lot to me and I think the whole thing is wonderful. I have fought anxiety, bullies, judgment, hateful comments, depression my entire life. I have gone through tough times. I hide everything I feel inside, so nobody really knows... but since I am posting this I guess I am telling everyone. I have tried ending my life multiple times and I didn't because I was weak. Every time I tried to do it again, I thought more I realize how many people I have that are worth living for. I realize more and more every time I sit down the blade without harming myself that I am not weak... I'm strong. Everyone should think that, but I am still fighting this battle by myself and I still try to do it sometimes because I can't stand life and people, but I'm still sitting here typing this now. The only reason I decided to submit this comment is because I believe everyone is stronger then those who push you down. No need to think your aren't because you are stronger then anyone I could think of if you can live the next day and the day after that and the one after that. Show everyone, no show yourself, that you are the strongest and most important reason to stay alive... I need to learn to take my own advice I guess... but please don't end your life because no matter who you think doesn't think you're "pretty" or "strong" or doesn't think you're worth loving just remember I think you are the most beautiful, the strongest, person ever! And I will ALWAYS love you!
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I was diagnosed with depression in 2008, not because I had a bad life, but because I was genetically prone to it. Once I was so close to cutting my own throat, crying silently in the kitchen with a knife in my hand.
Everything felt so hopeless, but then I looked down at my sweet old dog who was wagging her tail at me happily. I looked out the window at the sky and watched the birds flying over the trees. I recalled all the happiest memories with my family and friends.
I reminded myself that there were reasons for living. I put the knife back in the cutting block and held my dog and cried. I knew I just couldn't do it. In that moment, I told myself I was too weak to end my own life.
It's been over six years since that pitiful moment, and now I realize I'm still here not because I was weak, but because I was strong enough to live another day.
This poem is beautiful and I hope everyone appreciates it's message like I do.
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this is magnificent. thank you. yes, I'll do for them.
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Nice poem. You should send to IAVA and help them help our veterans.
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I needed this! I was feeling so PO'd today that my mind lead me back to my suicidal thinking again, but I hate going there! although I try not to, I still do it a LOT! Anyways, I'm glad I ran across this, and thanks for posting! ^-^
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i can understand why one would want to stay strong for all of these analogies... but what if I want to die because it's what would really piss off the people I hate? ;-D
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This is beautiful... the wording, the message, everything. It actually brought tears to my eyes.
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This, I do hope, will help my friend, Lovely-Lovino-Vargas
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This is fabulous, especially having come on here to tell a friend to call me cause I had just picked up a blade...
Any time I read any of your poems like these, I practically cry by the end of them...
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I almost did it. More than once. But I managed to stay alive. And here am I, surviving through another day...
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A lovely uplifting poem which I relate to sadly, staying strong is so hard for yourself, I find it easier to be strong for others.
But there comes a time that things just get too much, and at that moment we need a person to say "please put down the blade"
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This one is very well written, and needs more exposure. Good job!
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Dude that's amazing... Totally not crying. (Damnit)
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damn this has brought me to tears... since I battled fetal alcohol syndrome, depression, anxiety, narcissistic abuse, abandonment, PTSD and suicidal thoughts almost my whole life. I also had a speech impediment, learning disabilities and hearing problems as well, which made my life pretty hopeless when it comes to college, jobs, and other things. What's the point of even being here if I can't really do anything about my problems or the living situation I'm in? I might as well end it. Suicide was all I could ever think about. I could think about suicide as often as i want, but i could never drag that blade across my skin and pray for the courage to dig down harder and deeper until it ends my life. i also don't smoke, drink, or give into drug abuse either. I don't want to end my life... i just want this pain to end. to be free from this hateful, discriminating world and to be dwelling in paradise for the rest of eternity. Of course, my freedom from pain never came and it only got worse. Much worse.
I had almost ended my life for good in 2010 when I ended a narcissistic friendship and faced stalking, harassment and theft that would last for the next four years. Not too much longer later, I met my mother at Walmart for the first time since she abandoned me when I was 14 years old. I gave her another chance to be a part of my life again and be my mother, but she just wanted me to move in with her so she can use me and manipulate me into taking care of her when she never took care of me from the very moment I was conceived. I was so upset with her that I kept yelling and screaming at her through facebook, then walked out on her forever when I got fed up with her manipulative gaslighting techniques to make me doubt my own memory and think that she's right about everything and i'm wrong. I wouldn't stand for it and ended things with my mom before she had the chance to abuse me any further. My previous battle with narcissistic abuse might have saved my life, but I felt completely devastated from the inside and it felt like I have nothing left for me anymore. I lost an old friend of mine and my mother because in the end, they were both narcissistic people who wanted to use me. I lost several of my friends because they don't want to deal with the narcissistic abuse or the drama that came with it anymore and the fact I was going crazy from it. I lost my grandmother to diabetes in 2009. I lost my talent and fell into a severe artblock that lasted for years. There just wasn't anything for me anymore and I knew this was the end. I kept staring at a full bottle of excedrin pills thinking of fast and easy ways to end this life, but i couldn't go through of it because i was afraid of spending eternity in hell and i was afraid of dying as well.
So I held on instead, going through the mind numbing motions of my days alone. it wasn't until recently i reclaimed myself as a person and i started to find the desire to draw and redevelop my characters again. I had won the battle, but I have a long way to go before i reach a full recovery...
god bless you guys. life can be hard, but there's always light at the end of a dark tunnel.
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I'm glad you are pushing forward,you can truly recover when you have the mindset that you will get better. Right now there is a woman I love far away that decided to block herself from everybody except from talking to her sis and is walking alone to see if she will find happiness alone. She even blocked me on dA and cut me off which was recent but I still love her....and I will hold out for her, she is my Queen and I will not rob her the chance of love even if in the end she doesn't want it.
I have faith in her but I'm scared because she believes she may never be happy. I love her and I want the best for her, I'm powerless to do anything, weak to come to her aid. All I can do is wait even if I rob myself of happiness I will wait for her to get better....all I can do is wait and pray...still keep pushing for a better tomorrow even if you are unsure, no one knows the future but it is up to us to decide whether it is better to die or to rise up and show the world we are the victors. I just pray my Queen will choose to show the world she won't let it take her...
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if you love someone let her go. if she comes back to you she's yours, but if she doesn't then it's not meant to be.
this was another thing i had to learn the hard way. i was in love with someone a couple years ago only to find out that the feeling wasn't mutual. So I had to let him go, especially when he got into a relationship with someone else. As disappointed as I was with that, I knew that it was for the best and I wish them both the happiness in the world. Maybe you should do the same. The longer you hold onto someone who has walked away from you, the harder it will be for you to move past it.
When I left him, I came to realize that he was just a reflection of what I'm looking for in a man, but I left it all up to God and let him pick out the right person for me and I trust that he will send him at the right time. It may be awhile yet, but I know the wait will be worth it in the end, especially when I don't end up repeating my parent's mistakes marrying too soon and divorcing when i was ten.
I believe that the same will happen for you too and it always comes when you don't expect it. I wish you nothing but the best.
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Thank you for your wisdom, it carries weight. Maybe I'll be wrong but I'll stick to my decision of holding out for her, my heart rests easy when I decided on it. Maybe down the road you will prove right in which case I won't be completely hurt because you warned me or maybe she will come back. She loves me just as much and I believe she still does but wants to fix herself first.
I believe she deserves the choice to love and I want her to know she will always have me. I want to beat the odds and I want her and you to beat the odds and get better. Hehe maybe I'm a fool but if you knew my family's history you'd know we are quite loyal and faithful to the ones we love. In the end if she contacts me telling me she is happy and is with a man that treats her right then I shall let her go but if she comes back to me to be with me then my heart will always be open.
Im probably making the wrong decision but I'm ok with it, I have faith in her. Thank you for your sage wisdom, I fully mean that, and your blessings, I wish for nothing but the best for you too. I know you'll find someone who truly loves you too. Time will tell for the both of us ma'am.
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I really really needed this but my pain is getting to much for me to bear
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you are not alone my friend...we're here for you!
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