What Happened Before

TW: Description of Suicide and Self-Harm

And I felt it 
The last of the last 
And the beginning of it 

How you lose feeling first by your wrists
The rivers of unbounded possibilities
Slowing your heartbeat down

Then your breaths quicken, 

The last of the last of 
Air shared between me, and you 

I felt it all

My swirling, explosive emotions combating for one last influence

Before settling in a strong, strange, calmness

One I never felt in a long time

I felt my memories pressing incessantly on my withering eyelids

Faces and feelings and ideas and experience, everything
Everything that told of a life before. 

My feet tingled slightly and goosebumps appeared on my forearms

The light shone by the bathroom mirror, the tell-tale signs of the last
Sunrise

I huffed and puffed quietly, the blood finally slowing

Slowing...to a stop
And my eyes closed like they had before;
When I laid in contemplation, stood in frozen fear, or blushed from the absurdity of life 

And I never felt them

Open again

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Reviews

[The_Ancient_Rock]

Very good...
Very well depicted... how it must feel...
I tried a few times in the past... long ago... just by different methods...
Great poetry!!!
;)