For Suicides

For Suicides

I know why you did it
Though I did not read your note
You had to share your pain
by splattering it on the walls
in the bed down the drain

You were too much with it
The pain a litany by rote
You saw no way to gain
by holding it, shopping the malls
taking the pills, dulling the brain

I know the anger of it
the rage of blood you wrote
The message of the stain
in killing them, bringing on brawls,
leaving them dying in the rain