The Path of Least Resistance

"I'm here for you"

"If you ever need to talk"

"Tell someone if you're ever feeling depressed"

It might be so easy
For others to just

reach out

reach for the light
let someone help them out of the
darkness

It might be so easy
just to tell someone

let them fix what broke inside of you

heal it

It might be so easy

for other people
to get help
like everyone jokes around about
when they think their friends are weird

friends laugh it off
they brush it off
in a perfect world, everyone forgets

It might be so easy

But it's hard
It might be so much easier to



give up
give in
give out

give yourself over to the darkness
Let it grow inside you or outside

It might be so much easier to stay quiet
It might be so much easier to blast songs about depression, to make not-so-jokes about suicide, to look up whether the best method is by gun or by knife or by jumping off a cliff
It might be so much easier to stay the quiet person that everyone thinks you are
It might be so much easier to keep up appearances, keep it normal, keep it real, when it's all fake

so they can't stop you
when you finally decide

I wish I could just find a cliff to jump off of.
That might be so much easier.