stay a while longer
This is about one of the hardest things. But it's part of the human experience.
It starts with a poem, specially written for anyone on the cusp; that place between their life and death. If that's you, I know my words might not reach that far or be what you need right now. I've left some links to elsewhere. Take a look - it might help you to stay.
If you have decided it's time, go well.
Stay a while longer,
if you can.
Breathe some more, even if
it’s just another hour. Be sure,
before you slip into the deep.
I know that sea, its rack & roar;
my soul cast off, dashed on rock.
It’s like dying without dying.
I don’t offer hope. Hope
is in some future place, not here,
adrift
in the howling stretch.
I honour your passage instead.
Hold to the raft of yourself,
if you can; one shattered piece,
if that’s all that’s left. Even if
it’s just another minute,
another breath.
Try to find a way of being
of dying without dying
your soul knows how
to come to
rest
on the brow.
Hold a while longer,
if you can. Even if
it’s just
for now.
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