‘The will to live’: Poem by Jawi Kawatra, Apeejay School, Panchsheel Park

Listen to the poem

Fighting and crying

Feel so hopeless now

Saying to myself that this will end

Makes me laugh out loud

I have no energy

No motivation to do work

No hobbies left for me to slay

No dragon for a warrior

No more energy to cry

Eyes filled with sorrow

Only darkness is left

Oh what should I do

People whining to me

About my family, friends and choices

It hurts me to say

That the people who should protect us

Hurt us the most instead

Some think suicide is the better option

But I think not

Because the will to live

Is more than my will to die

There will always be a thousand reasons to die

But there will always be one more reason to live

Live your life to the best

You are you

And no one can take that away from you