To be Suicidal is to be Selfish

by

Dan Dressler

Hundreds die of hunger in poverty each day
While those remaining behind struggle to eat.
Breaking their backs. Harvesting their wheat.
Wishing they were in the good US of A.

Those who are poor treasure their lives,
Spending fifteen hours each day hunting for their meat.
Only to come home and sleep under a single sheet
While concerned of the health of children and wives.

They do this as you sleep in a large elegant house.
Warm when it's cold and cool in the heat.
The poor build a fire, in attempt to warm just their feet,
With barely enough food for them or even a mouse.

Yet you become suicidal while playing computer games.
Unhappy with life as you sit in your seat.
Eating Cereal, some candy, or some other sweet
While hundreds who want their lives die with lost names.

They struggle to support and live out each day.
Hoping to live with such little food in some way.
They sit over their hungry children and pray,
Asking God for just a little success in taking their miseries away.

Yet they still want to live, while you want to die.
You want to kill yourself over some self-centered matter
While starving children in poor health grow sadder.
While those children die, you sit in selfish depression and cry.

Many of the elderly are living cruel painful lives
Plagued by imminent death and constant poor health.
How they would be blessed to have you health and not wealth.
And yet you stare, unappreciative, glaring at those knives.

If you take your life, will the sick of the world mourn?
Will the homeless lament as you lie in your cozy coffin?
Will they understand, "My life's gone rotten?"
No my friend, the less fortunate will merely scorn.

According to the Bible, every life has a purpose.
That purpose may be whatever you choose it to be.
Perhaps to help the poor with taxes and fees.
Or help heal the world's problems as they forever surface.

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