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firstfullmoon

hey, do you know any anti-suicidal poems?

sending you love and strength

“The Thing Is” and “The World Has Need of You” by Ellen Bass

“Six Months after Contemplating Suicide” by Erika L. Sánchez

“Night Walk” by Franz Wright

“To the Young Who Want to Die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

“Da Capo” by Jane Hirshfield

“Antilamentation” and “I Never Wanted to Die” by Dorianne Laux

“What The Living Do” by Marie Howe

“Most Days I Want to Live” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

“Invitation” by Mary Oliver

“I Am Not Ready To Die Yet” by Aracelis Girmay

+ this excerpt from Cherry by Mary Karr (“That’s how you acquire the resolution for survival that the coming years are about to demand. You don’t earn it. It’s given.”)

#tw: suicide

pangur-and-grim

he perplexes me

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she rabbit kicked him off the ledge, then smacked him till he fell

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Pangur after pushing a baby into the abyss

creekfiend

the fact that "bargaining" is a stage of grief. + the fact that when I'm in extreme pain all I can do is lie on the floor and say "please please please" = we are such social animals. we really really really just have a brain that is wired for "surely there must be a way I can interact with someone else that will fix this" even under the most extreme of circumstances, where any rational thought will see a total absence of guys, such as when one is alone in the woods dying of exposure. humans have such a big hole inside us that's for "Someone Else" like a social placeholder such that we keep engineering stuff like religion in a million different ways in a million different places and times. we gotta have

1. social

2. narrative

and if none is provided to us we will make our own out of dirt and sticks

I love humans and I also find us kind of heartbreaking honestly