Gone Too Soon

One by one

We disappear

Like falling stars

From the nighttime sky

Never to shine

Again.

For most

No one notices

Our absence

Except for

Close family

And friends.

Becoming

An stat to compile

In a database

On suicide rate

Among the LGBT+ community.

Want to believe

It gets better

But my experiences

Says otherwise

As the bloodletting

Continues.

Mourning

The lost

Of another generation

Just discovering

Themselves.

Author's Note

Written January 6, 2015.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

it is really sad to just disappear---many young people don't fathom how much it hurts those they leave behind when they take their own lives...but in this day and age, the pressures are immense, even for the youths of this world. Those falling stars who fell out of the sky much too soon.

it is so sad...so many don't get to live full lives---life is short, but i think the memory is long.

[therisa]

Jacob, I think, we must, include, anyone who has just discover, their true self, and trying to adjust to this new reality. I know, my mom's rejection of me, resulted in a very black and suicidal depression, in July 2006, lasting over a month, before slowly clearing up.