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Lead filled Smile
Loaded
Aimed
Ready to fire
Steady dad always said
But what would he think
Of his precious princess
If he came home
To bloodstained truths
With a pretty bullethole
Through the roof of my mouth
Through the top of my skull
A box of heart wrenching letters
Left on my bed
Whispering screams of untold apologies
Things like
Im sorry
I'm not good enough
Not pretty enough
Not bright enough
Sorry I couldn't be
Everything you expected of me
But don't mistake me as cowardly
I pulled the trigger with pride
And maybe
We all can agree
This time I escaped hell
Just barely

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I wrote this because sometimes we all face our deepest monsters by hurting ourselves. This is the story of how I wanted to end my life. In the poem I state how there is a box of untold apologies and the truth is we as humans apologize to much. Maybe this is just a poem we can look at as the cowardish way out and how not to react. You can make it through whatever is causing you pain. And that's the purpose of poetry, to express all these feelings and emotions into beautiful poems. So I hope people learn a lesson that not everyone has it easy and youre not alone in whatever you're battling.