Don't Kill Yourself Today by Hannah Dains

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Hai! Harini aku nak kongsi satu puisi (?) yang aku dapat dari tiktok by Hannah Dains. Aku tertarik dengan puisi yang dia cipta. Puisi ni mengenai bahasa (code) merujuk kepada kemurungan dan bunuh diri.

Don't Kill Yourself Today

Don't kill yourself today
Because your Netflix trial still has a week left.

Don't kill yourself today
Because no one else will finish off the chicken in the fridge.

Don't kill yourself today
Because I know for a fact that Starbucks is releasing a new
Frappuccino sometime next month.

Yes, your mother will miss you.

Yes, your bully will make a sappy Facebook post about
what a wonderful person you were.

And yes
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
 
You know that.
You've known that.

Everyone and anyone has been shoving that down
your throat since they first learned what the word
suicide meant.

So don't kill yourself 
Until you finish your shampoo and conditioner at the same time.

Don't kill yourself
Until Doctor who is finally cancelled.

Don't kill yourself
Until you tell someone your best pasta recipe.

Don't kill yourself
Because I will keep coming up with reasons for you not to

And I need you.
To hear all of them.

Don't kill yourself

I love you.
You're important.

It's a bad day
Not a bad life.

There is more to this.
The world will keep spinning on it's axis without you,
but think of all the sunrise you'll miss.

Think of all the tears you'll never get to shed.
Think of all the celebrity twitter fights.
All the puppies and goldfish.
Think of all the sunflowers and frozen yogurt flavors.

I know this sounds pointless.
But when you're sitting in front of everything deadly you own
and revising your goodbyes, there will be too much darkness
to see anything else.

But this is not about seeing anything else.

This is about turning off the lights.
This is about giving yourself just one more day.

Even if it takes 10,000 of those "one more mornings" 
Before you get to "I can't wait for tomorrow"

This is about staying alive because it's pumpkin season.
This is about staying alive because you never really learned how to make gnocchi.
This is about staying alive because the future is coming and it is ready for you.

I don't need you to see it.
I just need you to believe that you can make it until then. 

by Hannah Dains

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