Could you hold up a handgun
to some ones’ head-
pull the trigger?
Could you end some ones’ life
with one single shot?
What if it was you,
bashing the barrel into your skull
Could you do it?

Could you walk your days depressed,
see everything in a negative light?
Could you live hating yourself?
Wishing you were someone else.
Could you cut your arm open
and feel relief?
Give yourself a smiley with a lighter-
or five
act as if you never would?
Could you do it?
Be a zombie
and walk this earth alone.

Could you play truth or dare
looking in a mirror?
Tell the truth
that you want to end it all.
Dare yourself
to make it happen.
Play hide and seek
with just you?

Could you dream darkness?
Wake up,
only to see the same thing
and still want to grasp reality?
Could you let yourself
drown in dispear
letting the acid of yesterday
burn through your soul
leaving you nothing
but bare bones
and still want to be alive?

Could you smile
after your soul sours?
Could you
Blink, breath,
live, lie,
in a cold cave
locked away
from the rest of the world
but only
in your mind?

Could you or do you?