Poems: Before You Fall

Another poem I wrote when I was a teenager, this one after a friend of mine attempted suicide twice. Luckily, she made it through and today we're the best of friends.

I know you've thought of it before,

But always you've found a thing to live for.

I know your pain right now seems endless,

But you are loved and surely not friendless.

 

Come back from the edge, please do not stay,

I promise you now it will all be okay.

But this thing you're doing, it cannot be fixed.

Just give it a chance, don't stand there transfixed.

 

Before you fall, let me share one thing,

And perhaps my words can still give you wings.

I tell you right now, we all still do care.

If we didn't, why would we despair?

 

You must come away, for you are our friend,

And how will we feel if our hope should end?

Your life can be anything, it's just what you make it,

So listen to me, and please do not take it.

Poems: Brighter Tomorrow

I don't remember when I wrote this one. In between relationships when I was a teenager, I think. At least, it was in the filing cabinet with the other poems I wrote as a teenager.

The breeze is brisk and yet it's still warm,

Now I can see what once was a storm.

Hopes, dreams, and promises never intended to hold,

Will see a new day and tomorrows untold.

 

I can see a new hope for the things that might be,

Even if we cannot quite agree.

We're growing stronger with each new breath,

We can rise above all the sadness and death.

 

I'll try more to listen and not always speak,

You should try too, it won't make you weak.

Share life with me, when it's all said and done,

And we'll find the peace of a new day begun.

 

We'll travel together, what a delight,

When we no longer worry who's wrong and who's right.

We'll fix our problems, we'll look within,

And come to the day when we love again.

 

With wishes and merriment in that day anew,

We'll make our lives about me and you.

Leave behind the trials and all of the sorrows,

And we will soon find a brighter tomorrow.