Day 23 of 31 Days in August
The Final Hours Collection of the PTSD Poetry Project 2016
Day 3 of 22
The upcoming month of September is National Suicide Awareness Month http://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Suicide-Prevention-Awareness-Month
The significance of 22 is the average number of veterans who die by suicide each day
Please visit Honor Courage Commitment, inc’s page https://www.22kill.com/team-22kill/ to learn about the mission and how they are bringing awareness by using the hashtag #22kill and their 22 push-up challenge.
***This Collection’s poems’s subject is suicide and can be triggering to read. Please practice CAUTION BEFORE READING***
“The Puzzle”
The pieces fall together
Each moment
Each spoken word
Are all a clue to what will come
The first sight
Tells so many secrets
How close will this be
To the one moment
After which there will be no more
Downcast eyes
A body drawn in upon itself
The dejected stance
The angry defiance of their words
A gift given
Of seemingly no importance
So many times
The subtle signs are missed
Because there is no interest
In the puzzle of intent
One person shows the pieces
For us to notice
For us to find
Another person hides them all away
Until it is too late
We are each made up of pieces
Waiting to be noticed
Waiting to be seen
Waiting to finally be heard
Before it is our final hour
Each piece of our puzzles
Deserve to be given notice
Deserve to be heard
Before we become merely a body
Found far too late
Treated long after decisions have been made
From which there is no return
The clues are there
Waiting to be discovered
Before our puzzle
Becomes complete
Before our puzzle
Becomes a headstone
of the remembrance
of our final hours
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