The dark voice in the back of their mind starts to whisper. And the options they place before us quickly become more and more certifiable with every grim day that we barely manage to trudge through. What we would normally shrug off and ignore we start to manifest reasons to why we should embrace it.
Until we blink our eyes and find ourselves staring down the barrel of a gun. The bubbling scarlet laughter pouring out through wicked smiles we’ve emblazoned upon our wrists. Our every nerve tingling with the anticipation of what shall occur within the course of the next five minutes.
The lasting pain of our memories is a malevolent demon. Fierce and fickle. No one can escape the past. Nor can they escape the lasting imprint they leave upon our minds. Until our dying days we’ll be thinking back. Quoting incidents word for word. Imagining the countless retorts and responses we would have said had we been given the time and the poise to aptly dodge our weakest moments.
Whether we let our demons devour us. Or stand up and vanquish them. The memory of them will remain with us forever. And for some of us. Forever is too long to deal with the pain we’ve been unjustly dealt for our entire lives.
Sometimes the hardest way out is the easiest to reach. And for those who’ve accepted this freedom. They’ll be eternally spurned by those they’ve left behind. And alienated are those who mention the intentions and the means.
Things will not get better. Giving life another five months will not change the fact that sometimes the torment of one’s mind runs deeper than what most can see and what most would even want to accept. The echoing responses from monochrome lips will rarely do little albeit numb the fact that whilst you can make the pain ebb for a day, the devil’s open arms forever beckon.
I won’t cry for help. The very mention of it sparks a plethora of question marks inside my skull. I don’t know how. And to ask for it implies weakness. And to imply weakness is to reveal my inadequacy to properly compose myself on a day to day basis. Sparking concern in the eyes of all those close to me.
Never will I be viewed as sane again. For always will the people who know whisper of how I am troubled. And that only leads to mindless gossip that in turn evolves into wicked intentions to purge the problem. And whilst that can be an enjoyable interaction with the true faces of those who care, it only leads to the common revelation that no one wants to deal with a vagrant.