Life, Save, Verse. Poem by Matthew Holloway

I put pen to paper
Rather than knife to wrist
Lines of verse preferred
To pills and whisky
Though sometimes suicide
Tempts some magical bliss
Some escape from a world
That's become difficult to handle
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Poetry is a saviour
Bringing me back to near sanity
This darkness is real and true
This darkness is often unseen
Often unheard or unspoken
Yet some live it daily
Exist in existence alone
It is something unpleasant
Through the written word life
Comes back and touches
The soul, at just the right time