The Coaxing Call Of Death Poem by Jinge Norvall

The Coaxing Call Of Death



Storm clouds roll through mental skies
Shutting out light and day..
Lightening rods shoot fiery darts
At the heart of deepest night..
Waves arise in emotional seas
Pounding the shores of life;
Crashing thunder like stallions hooves
Battering mental endurance.

Fear not cloud, nor wave, nor storm..
Such seasons come, and pass..
Fear instead the insidious voice
That bids us to end it, and die -
The voice that speaks
To slumbering ears
Creeps into the innermost being..
Whispering of failure,
Hopelessness, death -
Scorching emotional landscapes.

Stop your ears to its' needling whine..
To the coaxing call of death -
Hopelessness is a hungry beast -
And the grave
Its' insatiable belly.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This poem is about becoming suicidal. I feel deeply for all those affected by suicide. The depression that leads to suicide is so deep that these individuals cannot climb out of its' black pit without help... circumstances become so overwhelming that nothing can be seen in a positive light. This poem was inspired partly by the suicide of my niece-in-law's brother, & partly by my own depression. However I have never been suicidal.
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