Be With Me Poem by Truth Daniels

Friends make memories
Love ones draw smiles on hearts
The beautiful days created are hard to wipe
Great and happy moments stay longer than birth marks

But what happens when you lose a love one
When you are betrayed by the one in heart
Just when you shared laughs and smiles and love
And Just when you bid her goodbye
Just when you bid her goodnight

What if she took it serious
What if that was the last time
What if when she said she was going to bed
She really meant to put her soul to sleep
To close her eyes from our dark world and
Open in the other side of town

What if all along
She was crying to you
Silently wailing in your ears
What if every call was for you to answer
To ask her how she was doing
What if your duty was just to call and check up
And to provide care like she's your patient and you her nurse

What if your hands were hotter and she had to embrace her soul in the cold arms of death
What if all it takes to prevent anyone from committing suicide
Is just a smile, an ear to listen and a voice to comfort

But am I my brothers keeper?
Are you?
So is that why we unlook and lash their vulnerability with cain
Then why do we seem to care when we hear their blood calling for redemption
Like we are some form of salvation and need an exemption from the feeling of guilt

There are a lot of people in depression
Repressing their happiness and their will to live
Why don't we lend a listening ear
To hear their cry for help

Why don't we give them a reason to live
A change of mind
And help them back, to align
Why don't you call her mine


I just want you to know that
Mental instability is a deadly weapon killing a lot of innocent ones
Let's look out for each other
Let's see one another as our own
Our brother, sister, mother, father, our loved one
Together let's win the war against suicide
Before it kills us