TW: Suicidal Ideation
You informed me,
after watching a clip
from the evening news,
that it was selfish
for anyone
to ever
take their own life.
I sat in silence,
watching food roll around
the gaping hole in your head,
as you continued your rant
between pregnant breaths
of arrogance.
I nodded
as my hand
supported my jaw,
not in agreeance,
but in reverence to
the bottle of pills
you never noticed
were gone.
Lindsey Heatherly is an emerging writer, born and raised in Upstate South Carolina. She has work forthcoming in The Scriblerus Arts Journal and Rejection Letters. She works as a pharmacy technician in an inpatient psychiatric hospital and spends her time at home raising a strong, confident daughter.
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