Fall Poem by Rebecca Pepper

You can't tell them what's wrong
Because they'll see you're long gone
No longer able to be saved
Not from this road you've paved
So you sit in silence and hope
That one day you'll be able to cope
Push away the feeling of dependency
That life is nothing but a failed emergency
And crawl out of the pit in which you fell
Make life more than a living hell
No longer wish that you don't wake
Fighting to prove you're not lying, not fake
And maybe they won't just see the scarred heart
But the broken girl that can't find a good part
To cling to when life flexes its claws
And self-hatred escapes every pore
As you fall deeper to the call
Of those who, like you, have begun to fall