destigmatizing suicide by darkmotherpoetry, literature
Literature
destigmatizing suicide
I stare at my therapist
my eyes feel like they have gone black
like black ink is pouring into my irises
as though death is standing in front of me
she is talking about insurance
I say mhm
I nod
I tell her that I was suicidal yesterday
and this morning
I tell her about the dark images that intrude into my mind
images of cutting my skin open
images of tying a rope around my neck
images of jumping off a bridge
she briefly acknowledges
she asks me to use external labels
she asks me to name suicide
I laugh
suicide is too serious to name
but she insists it's a "joke"
that it is "just passing the pain on to others"
I nod
I say m
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