Some Place Else Poem by Claire Abbott

Blackness Surrounds
The velvet darkness envelopes me,
Air seems to disappear.
I start to choke and suffocate.

I can't take this any longer,
I want to escape this impending bleakness.
Desperation sets in, I'm crying for help.
No-one can hear me.

I want to escape but theres no way out.
I want to be free.
Help me someone please.
I can't live like this anymore.

Life would be better without me.
Nothing to mess up or do wrong.
Life would be happier without me,
I should be gone. I should die.

Take me some place else lord.
A place where there is love not hatred.
Somewhere I can live in peace and harmony with myself and others.
Let me die please let me die.

I can't take this pain no longer.
I've been hurt to many times.
I pray and ask for good things yet its all wrong.
Must be my fault.

If I wasn't here things would be good.
If I was away people would be happy.
Let me go please let me go.
Let me be happy some place else.

2002...I was battleing a period of self harm