'Suicide Crossed Your Mind Today' Poem by Linda Winchell

Why would you my friend even have these thoughts?
That you would now want to take your life.
What's happened that you feel so let down and blue?
That you can't seem to pull yourself back up-right.

A follower of Jesus Christ,
Since you were very young.
Always sharing with those in need of hearing,
About your Savior's love.

Yet now can't find a spark of it for yourself?
Is it that you're not searching in the proper place,
That Satan would have such a hold on you,
And want to remove your life...taking with Christ's forgiving grace.

I'm too far away... the sea keeps us thousands of miles apart,
But I will light a candle an pray for you,
All through the day and into the night.
That's just what God has asked me to.

I'll ask my Savior to place a cloak of protection around you,
And lift you up from your feelings of down.
And open up your heart and mind,
To see that Jesus was the only one who suffered on the cross,
And wore His bloody thorn of crown.

We have not been crucified,
And never will... as I can tell.
But to take your life after walking with Christ my friend,
Would be worse than your now felt pit of Hell.