for whoever needs to hear it

Don’t kill yourself today

Because your Netflix trial still has a week left

Don’t kill yourself today

Because no one else will finish off the chicken in the fridge

Don’t kill yourself today

Because I know for a fact the Starbucks is releasing a new Frappuccino sometime soon

Yes, your mother will miss you

Yes, your bully will make a sappy Facebook post about how much of a wonderful person you were

And yes

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem

You know that

You’ve known that

Everyone and anyone has been shoving that down your throat since they learned what the word “suicide” meant

So don’t kill yourself

Until you finish your shampoo and conditioner at the same time

Don’t kill yourself

Until Grey’s Anatomy has finally ended

Don’t kill yourself

Until you tell someone your best pasta recipe

Don’t kill yourself

Because I will keep coming up with reasons for you not to

And I need you

To hear all of them

Don’t kill yourself

I love you

You’re important

It’s a bad day

Not a bad life

There is more to this

The world will keep spinning on its axis without you

But

Think of all the surprises you’d miss

I know this sounds pointless

But when you’re sitting in front of everything deadly you own

Revising your goodbyes

There will be too much darkness to see anything else

But this isn’t about seeing anything else

This is about turning off the lights

This is about finding the bed instead of the noose

This is about giving yourself one more day

Even if it takes 10,000 of those

One more morning’s

“I can’t wait for tomorrow”

This is about staying alive

Because the future is coming

And it’s ready for you

I don’t need you to see it

I just need you to believe you can make it until then.

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