Breathe

There is the edge right at the tip of your feet
You know that if you make a move forward, you'll fall to your doom.
You know that if you go back down, you'll live in hell.
That's what your mind is telling you, whispering to you every single day.
You feel trapped. you feel lost and confused... You feel dead and yet you're still living.

There is the edge right at the tip of your feet.
you want to make that step forward. It's calling you, the infinite peace, the silence, the end of it all.
You are about to jump into the unknown, knowing full well that it might just be the beginning.
But you are ready, you'd rather go through this than spend one more day in your living hell.

When you reach that point when you know that there is nothing more to be done...Breathe.

Take a minute, look around you and contemplate life.
yes, it's dark and gloomy and a straight-up nightmare but this is what makes life, LIFE.
Darkness and light mixed together, this is what life is about and you know it.
When your head plays tricks on you, darkness seems to be darker than usual, I understand that.

When your head plays tricks on you, Light seems to have died or simply never existed, I understand.
It is so painful that sometimes you wish you weren't living in your flesh or just living altogether
You can't see the small dots of light that are peppered in your life, you are blinded to it, I understand.
How could you look at it when all you've known is pain and suffering? I don't blame you.

When you reach that point when you know that there is nothing more to be done...Breathe.

Take a minute, look around you and contemplate Life.
You might see through the smoke and shadow cast upon you, and the pain and suffering endured.
You might finally see how strong you are, how much you have survived and would survive.
You've endured all of that pain already! you've seen Hell and came back to tell the tale!

Fill your mind with the precious memories you've gathered since you came to life.
Your first kiss, That special birthday you had, the gift you couldn't wait to give to your loved one.
Think about all these moments that brought you peace, that made you feel at peace, relevant even
Think about all those glorious moments when you got to do good around you and receive good too

Little dots of lights are still around even though the darkness is thicker than usual

Breathe, Breathe my child, Breathe!

Take a minute for yourself, excuse your presence from the world and look within you
For all the times when you won and all the times when you survived should be celebrated
You can't ignore the efforts you made, the beauty you created around you by being yourself
to benefit and feed the twisted image of yourself your mind keep on shoving down your throat

Take a minute for yourself, excuse your presence from the world and look within you
For all the time you were a beautiful soul, for all the time you saved someone's life
For all the time you brought them Light by simply being there, or supportive, or understanding.
You can't ignore those times to the benefit of the darker ones. You can't paint yourself as a monster.

Breathe, Breathe my child, Breathe!

And once you see the world as it truly is, with the darkness and the light dancing together
Once you see that we are all a mix of both, with our darkness and our light inside of us
Once you see that you are capable of so much more than just destroying lives...Yes, once you do this,
Then maybe, if there's some strength left inside of you, you can back down and walk back into Life.

And I would be waiting for you, my child.