alone

How completely and utterly alone must a person feel to bring themselves to the brink of suicide? Alone with their pain, alone with their thoughts - seemingly cut off from the world. Locked in a dungeon of tormented feelings, there must be no visible way out. How sad and hopeless.

It makes you wonder though – did I contribute, in any way, to this end? Was I a part of the jeering or the whispered comments? Lord, forgive me if I was.

Would you still be here if I had reached out to you? Would you still be here if someone had supported you? Would you still be here today if you were not so alone? I can only wonder now…and hope that I am more aware of hurting souls in the future.

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