One last drink before grey dawn in memory of a friend too soon gone. We'll never know what led to this final decision. All that's left are anxious dreams skittering like the dead weaves of winter through numb minds an air tainted by gunpowder a taste of bitter medicine
Blair Redmond
@blairbearing · 1:17
Air tainted by gunpowder, a taste of bitter medicine. Is that not what suicide is for everyone that's left behind, like, I'm happy that you're no longer suffering. But the space that was left because you're no longer here to love on is bitter medicine. What cured you of your pain may have started who's left behind suffering? I was really moved by that. Who has contemplated suicide once or twice in my life
Arya Sunyata
@theheartdrive · 3:44
And then from there, having lived that, having been the person who had to pick up, there's also a level of understanding for the person who did it, at least a deep compassion. I can't say it's right or wrong, somebody was suffering to the point that they did that maybe that is the medicine for that person. Sometimes it's not a simple solution to say, oh, that's just wrong
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
J Stout
@DarkMoonMusings · 0:38
Hi, Blair. Thank you for taking the time to listen to this and respond to this piece. I think you're quite right. Suicide leaves this big hole in the lives of the people who are left behind because we can never truly understand what happened that actually drove the person we love to suicide. And it is a bitter medicine that we have to take when that happens
J Stout
@DarkMoonMusings · 1:19
Yes, I totally agree. Suicide is such a complex issue, and in our culture, it's so hush hush. Like, just whispered about behind closed doors. Nobody wants to acknowledge it or talk about it, but it affects the people that are left behind piece was based on an IG prompt, but the emotion is based on true experience. Hence the title. Pickett was the first friend that felt the need to take his own life