One Chance: Listen

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Poem By: OHSHCKaori
Poetry

Tags: listen, message, friend, alone, just

I wrote this for a dear friend. For the past three years, every time I go to a week-long conference, she ends up trying to kill herself because she has no one to talk to. She's never managed to do it, but it's been a close call this last time.
She'll never read this, but I wish she would. View table of contents...

Submitted: Jul 18, 2008 Reads: 49 Comments: 7 Likes: 3

One Chance

One life

You can make it

Ignore the pain

You're not as alone

As you really think

All you have to do

Is believe

There are others too

Who've felt your pain

You just have to realize

They're there to listen

Just listen,

It's not that hard

But you have to trust

That you'll hear it

The subliminal message

That only some can hear

They hear, because

They listen

You're not alone

All you have to do

Is listen

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Comments:

Alice Oiseau

i love poems like this. its a real eye opener. i find it very refreshing.
i hate it when people think they are the only ones in the world who have it rough. everyone experiences some sort of hardship. everyone faces challenges on a day to day basis. its a fact of life. and when someone shuts the world out, and doesnt listen to the people around them, they think they are the only one going through a bad time. gah! it irks me terribly when people do that!
and so this poem is an eye opener to those who dare shut the world out and claim that no one understands when really many can relate and connect.

liked it muchly :)
it has my vote!

Posted: Jul 18, 2008

Author Comment:

Thanks. I hate it when people do that too. There will always be someone who can relate to you, but there are some people who want to be alone and that's not always possible.

Some of my friend complain that school is hard and that their boyfriend just dumped them, or that their parents won't give them their allowance until the next week and they don't even realize that I'm working two part time jobs to help my parents and pay for my little sister's extra curricular activities while giving up my own.
It irks me that they think they've got it so hard and they don't even think that maybe just maybe someone has it harder.

Thanks I'm glad you liked it.
~Kaori

Pratibha

i used to think like ur friend until my MOM told me about her difficult childhood days and I realised that my life is heaven....

All we have to do is listen ( as u said) , listen to those who care for us ( she is so mucky to have you) and to see around us...

Posted: Jul 18, 2008

Author Comment:

Exactly. Thank you
~Kaori

Loli

Wow~very nice! It's quite true that once people understand thay they are not alone they will feel better,i feel that way too, but often people get too involved in their inner worlds to realise that they are not alone and does silly things...

Posted: Aug 1, 2008

Author Comment:

EXACTLY!!!! THANK YOU!!! Finally someone who understands that (besides the people who already commented.)
Thank you thank you thank you
~Kaori

DiscoveredDream

Amazing. Really, I got exactly what you meant, You think when something happens it hasn't happened to someone else and you think your alone in this world. I do love this poem. One of the best.

Keep up with your work

-DD

Posted: Aug 18, 2008