Some thoughts on suicide

I've recently completed the study part of my Community Services Work certificate IV. Next comes 140 hours of work placement. I enjoyed doing the classroom part of my study, but didn't enjoy working by myself, just me, my computer and the assignment.

My two final assignments, which I completed in the same week were about firstly domestic violence and secondly suicide. I have to say it felt like a very bleak week indeed. I got through the work though, submitted the assignments and I'm proud and pleased to say I received a pass for each, together with supportive comments.

Thinking about that tonight  prompted thoughts about suicide, and I can honestly say I don't think I would consider that way. I wrote a poem about it, and I'd like to share that poem with you.

THE BILL

if I were to fail to find

a reason to wake

if I were to see only

dark clouds looming

and not the rainbow

then suicide may become

an option

but every day brings

something new

whether a tiny thing

or something large -

with things teetering

on my horizon -

I continue on

if you fail to see

or can’t believe

better things may come

if no-one’s there

to care that you exist

then it’s up to you

to be the one who cares

each of us is important

the world is incomplete

when we leave

if our life has ended

before its time

nature has rules, and we

must heed them