https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/anthony-bourdain-chef-found-dead-61
https://nypost.com/tag/suicide/
Almost every day this week
I read someone has killed theirself
in the USA
UK
Elsewhere
Like the sister of the Dutch Queen
Well known successful, total failure,whatever
The suicide rate is rising in the USA
Homicide down by 50%
But we are turning the hate inwards
Some of us suffer chemotherapy,surgery
Blindness,road accidents which cripple
Yet we fight to live.
Where is the sense?
Is it the horrors of the Wars
The Trump success
Brexit civil war in England?
Have we killed what seems worthwhile?
Are we in jobs with low pay
Surrounded by luxury goods
Or food we can’t afford for our children
Piled high in the shops we must go to?
Have we lost all connection to the Sacred?
Nature is dying
Cuckoo numbers of those living in England have declined by 75%
What next, the lark?
Are we unable to see in perspective?
Ot is it just a chemical lacking in our brains?
So sad to read these stories
Yet I know mental health is not prioritised
Apart from the shame, the labelling and the lowering of self confidence
Let’s help each other and ourselves.
It is not the answer
Life can become worthwhile once more
If we are patient
How my heart sings 