Twenty years ago today,
I had my first suicidal thought,
as a nine year old child,
It's crazy how at such a young age,
our worlds can grow so dark.

Childhood stripped and forced to grow,
Into a world of pain I was yet to know,
would surpass time into a world of years of solitude,
that would eventually dim my glow.

Broken to pieces as a child,
now forever trapped within the thoughts in my mind,
Darkness.

Pain surrounding year after year,
along with those thoughts relentlessly,
until the day I tried.
It was the only thing that made me feel alive,
when all I was,
was dead inside.

I was belittled by many for...