Analysis of Suicide note: A poem
December 12, 2019
I do not fear death.
I fear life.
I fear the voices in my head
That try to take it from me.
And I fear the things I see
Everything I try to go to sleep.
I'm scared of living another minute
With this pain I'm feeling.
And I'm scared of the midnight thoughts
That leave me reeling
Night after night.
I'm scared of standing up to fight
So I back down.
Cowering in the corner,
I try to hide
But they always find me.
I'm scared of you realising
How bad it's getting.
And I'm scared of leaving
Because you'll spend the rest of your life regretting
Not asking whether I'm OK.
But I don't tell you I'm not
Because I'm scared of what you'll say.
I fear pain.
But I fear the numbness even more.
I fear the emptiness that plagues me
That only goes away when I take that knife
From the back of my drawer.
I'm scared one day somebody will notice my cuts,
And judge me,
As if my pain weren't already enough.
I fear the day you walk in,
And see this note sitting on my desk.
I did my best,
To stay
But it got to much and I had to go,
Away.
If your reading this I guess it's that day,
Today.
I'm sorry to leave but it's better this way.
Because I spent the last year,
Drowning in my fear.
Faking smiles
Because it's been a while
Since I've felt genuinely OK.
Living is harder than dying,
And it's so easy to die.
What's the pain of cut wrists
Compared to the pain I feel everyday
Just, existing.
I do not fear death.
But I fear goodbyes.
So this isn't goodbye,
I'll see you again just in another life.
One not so rife
With pain and suffering.
A life where I can feel something
Other than regret and sorrow.
One where I wouldn't have to wish
I didn't wake up,
Just so I don't have to go through
The pain of tomorrow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 11111 111 11010011 1111111 0110111 10111111 1111001010 111110 0111011 11110 1101 11110111 1111 1000010 1111 11111 11111 11110 011110 011101111010 11010111 1111111 01111111 111 111010101 110100111 11010111111 101111 11111011011 011 11111001001 1101110 011110111 1111 11 1111101111 01 1110111111 01 11011111011 0111011 10011 101 011101 111100011 10110110 0111011 101111 0110111101 1010 11111 1111 11101 11101100101 1111 110100 01111110 10101010 11110111 11011 11111111 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,730 |
Words | 396 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 5, 5, 7, 5, 3, 9, 5, 5, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
This poem was inspired by the thoughts and feelings of a teenager who is experiencing chronic depression and suicidal thoughts. This poem was written for those woo have experienced what I have or have lost someone to depression and was written in the form of a suicide note as it iss an exploration of the thoughts and feelings of someone dealing with mental health and allows those who haven't experienced this to better understand it.
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Written on November 12, 2021
Submitted by hayden.orourke204 on December 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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