There are people who look down at teens who have ended their own lives and laugh.  There are some who cry, others who mourn, but what they don't realize is what these young people were really thinking when they pulled the trigger, kicked the stool, drew the blade, or swallowed the poison.
Romeo and Juliet were heartbroken, but were willing to try anything to be together.  When Juliet drank the toxin that put her to sleep, she only thought of her dear Romeo.  When Romeo found her in the Capulet tomb, he believed her to be dead.  The poison he bought in Mantua instantly became his best friend.
As did the dagger in Romeo's belt when Juliet discovered the poison.
Teens everywhere are pushed around and made fun of.  Some go home with cuts and bruises.  Others don't go home at all.  There are so many families who get calls from the school or hospital about their teens.  Some teens end up in Phyciatric Hospitals, like Acadia in Abilene, Texas.  All they want is to be able to talk or be alone.  Then the "doctors" come along and say "It's all going to be ok, the medication will make everything better."  What's worse, they usually have no idea what is going on in the teen's head.  I am writing this because I have experienced first-hand the effects of ignorant adults.
Bleach, kitchen knives, shoelaces, guitar strings, Windex, razor blades, safety pins, guns.  These are just a few of the many items that are the last friends the teens have before they take their last breath.  They sometimes write suicide notes, they sometimes carve names into their arms.  Sometimes, they hold everything that means anything to them and let those items write their notes. _________________________________________________________________________________________
Saw your eyes today in a memory painted in the sky.
You smiled and said to me, "a love like this can never truly die."
So now the show's over and I've got to disguise the thing I've become.
I only wish I could stop laughing!
I grin because the joke is on them this time!
They don't have a clue.
Calm consumes me.
(I immerse myself in sick reflection...)
I shut my eyes and once again the pleasure strangles me.
I taste the tears of sweet indulgence, pain and fantasy.
Oh, the visions inside my head...
The emptiness will haunt you...
(I immerse myself in sick reflection...)
Sanity is slowly slipping from my hands now.
I'm standing closer to the edge than I should be allowed.
Oh, what little regret I have...
Does that make me a killer?
I am the face of death standing right behind you.
Yet you're oblivious to my cold breath on your neck.
Is it just too easy?
Am I just too good at this?
I am the chosen one.
I am the end of all and now you are mine!
Calm consumes me.
(I immerse myself in sick reflection...)
I shut my eyes and once again the pleasure strangles me.
I taste the tears of sweet indulgence, pain and fantasy.
Oh, the visions inside my head...
The emptiness will haunt you...
(I immerse myself in sick reflection...)
Sanity is slowly slipping from my hands now.
I'm standing closer to the edge than I should be allowed.
Oh, what little regret I have...
Does that make me a killer?
Saw your eyes today in a memory painted in the sky.
You smiled and said to me, "a love like this can never truly die."
Let's just say you're right and the nightmare ends, we wake up side by side.
What makes you think that I would let you live?
I've really lost my mind...
Behold, for I am the will of the reaper!
Beg for the mercy of your worthless angels!
As relief washes over me, calm consumes me.
(I immerse myself in sick reflection...)
I shut my eyes and once again the pleasure strangles me.
I taste the tears of sweet indulgence, pain and fantasy.
Oh, the visions inside my head...
The emptiness will haunt you...
(I immerse myself in sick reflection...)
Sanity is slowly slipping from my hands now.
I'm standing closer to the edge than I should be allowed.
Oh, what little regret I have...
Does that make me a killer?
[x3] [fades out]
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These are the lyrics of the song "Hymn For The Shameless" by Alesana.  Read these and consider the millions of teens who end their lives every day, the thousands who end their lives every hour, the hundreds every minute, the dozens every second.  Write your own Hymn For The Shameless and remember, listen to them if they try to talk to you.  Don't put them on meds, in hospitals, or in the hands of strangers.  It only quickens their demise.  Save a life.  Write your own Hymn.


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