Suicide Night Poem by Kelly Zion

Alone with the cars, alone tonight
dim lights shine, the world's asleep
and tired, too numb from crying all day
we dry our tears and walk the night away
America, let's climb the side
of the overpass and watch the Semis sleep
there's no one awake, everyone is deep
in melancholy silence
it's one of those quiet
Suicide Nights.

Watch me flicker and go dim
watch me stars, tonight let's sing
no love tonight, no time, no one
too far away you've always been
these nights to cry, I've always seen
just the lights, dull and still
the smells of blankets and hotels
lulling like bubble baths
with razorblades
dull and dead and still tonight
listening to cars driving by
the winds, my hammock here tonight
hold me like arms so I can cry
it hushes my thoughts, I feel only empty
silence.

A calling, the lights, here to guide me
the stars tonight you know will find me
so far away they seem
a gap of time, a spell of the night
something dead's fallen over me,
something that won't let me sleep
like all the other zombies;
Something that calls me to come alive
I need to feel alive,
I can't escape this
SUICIDE NIGHT.

No one will rescue me
I'm awake while you sleep
then you wake up and I'll have left
catch me, Love, if you can
catch me Semis, friends of mine
catch me city lights, catch me wind
catch me asphalt that shimmers
with sad orange light
catch me, anyone, before I run
Into this Suicide Night.

Everything is so peaceful, I can't
Everything is so right that it's wrong
let me run away from this emptiness
that wants to smother me tonight
let me run away from life
before I run out of time
while I'm awake before the dull, dead sun gets too bright
and deadens my heart and closes my eyes.