YOU ARE NOT ALONE

September is Suicide Prevention Month. 

We need to speak up about MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTION, and SUICIDE not only this month, but every month. 

Take a moment to check in on loved ones today. Be kind. Try your best to listen, be non-judgmental and offer empathy. Encourage your friends and family

to learn warning signs and risk factors for suicide: hopelessness, uncontrolled anger, increased alcohol or drug use, withdrawal from friends, family &

society, agitation and inability to sleep, or sleeping all the time, as well as dramatic mood changes; just to name a few. 

You are so much more than your darkness ever wants you to be.

#youarenotalone #stigmafree  @800273talk 

a sweet seduction

less concrete

a cold eruption 

hot release

no words to numb 

the pain to be 

no explanation 

sane to speak

just one more beat

last one to breathe

two steps too steep 

to free this feeling 

please do not grieve 

the loss of me 

for time has worn 

this body bleak

and it’s been seasons 

since i fled

this hollow shell

an empty bed

a world too harsh

for what I need 

of artifice 

and gnawing greed

i’ve weighed my options 

said my piece 

so lay me down now

let me bleed. 

WE LOVE YOU. 

article written by kristine, poetry by cass, painting by ailis