{"id":65956,"date":"2020-06-27T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65956"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:38:41","slug":"5-suicide-is-no-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/5-suicide-is-no-option\/","title":{"rendered":"5.  SUICIDE IS NO OPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month Bollywood was rocked:<\/p>\n<p>an actor had died.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that he,<\/p>\n<p>committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What draws a person, to take the life of his own?<\/p>\n<p>Is depression, so strong that it will pull you down?<\/p>\n<p>Sinking and sinking in its murky dark depth,<\/p>\n<p>suffocating you, eventually asphyxiating your breath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When depression, slithers its cold tentacles, is suicide the only choice?<\/p>\n<p>Can no one reach out to you, with a sound reasonable voice?<\/p>\n<p>The terror and trauma of the final moment,<\/p>\n<p>when life ebbs away, in death indecent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The horror and pain of the loved ones left behind,<\/p>\n<p>when the lifeless body, discovered and find.<\/p>\n<p>The guilt, as they come to terms for realising that they could do something,<\/p>\n<p>that could prevent you from this act, committing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seek help, if you are in depression,<\/p>\n<p>because suicide is definitely not an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month Bollywood was rocked: an actor had died. It is alleged that he, committed suicide. &nbsp; What draws a person, to take the life of his own? Is depression, so strong that it will pull you down? Sinking and sinking in its murky dark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78218,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65956\/revisions\/78218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}