The Death Note — What happens when where your heart is……isn’t?

Tinomutenda Mpunganyi
Nov 4 · 1 min read

You committed suicide when you decided your own opinion mattered less than everyone else’s.

The moment you valued others’ feelings and burdens over your own.

When you figured you could be the stronger one and carry it all on your ‘big, broad’ shoulders.

That’s when you died.

You were dead long before you buckled under the weight of your own struggles.

The heaviness of your issues was larger than life…or so you thought.

Sharing is caring and opening up was a sure way of not dying.

Yet you didn’t let go.

Why did letting others in seem so difficult?

Your tongue tied up when you tried to express your true self.

When you wanted to let it all go, it held on to you.

Like ash on a white cotton shirt, it just wouldn’t come out.

You died the moment you didn’t admit you were dying.

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