Justified suicide. Option # 1

She tried to jump off Superior bridge tilting forward into the thin air and she would have fallen to her death if I hadn't stopped her there I started to speak, but I'd barely said, "Why?" when she turned, and spoke sadly to me "Mister I'm tired of living my life in a world full of sheer misery." I've got family I'd miss..... but they've nothing to eat, unemployment is high, and I've worn out my feet the rent's overdue, soon we'll be on the street I kept trying to fight, finding only defeat the newspapers tell me that things will get worse it seems the whole world's living under a curse what with nuclear stockpiles destruction that's planned and pollution that slowly is poisoning the land so much murder and rape. and we all live in fear and the laws only help to get criminals clear there is nothing to hope for in this coming year so I felt it was high time to step out if here!" well........... the things that she'd said were not strangers to me my life too, it knew  constant bad weather so I reached over gently and took up her hand then she and I jumped off together! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ArtisMy mark on the wall! option #1 This poem was written by me when I was fifteen....... Written January 16th, 2002 © on Jan 16 2002 01:23 AM PST   other