When Will It Be Time?

Parenting mental health issues — free verse poetry

Photo by Jakob Rosen on Unsplash

*Trigger warning: Topic deals with depression and suicide

It’s only the second month in and I’ve met the vice principal three times. Today it was the principal, himself.
His voice devoid of compassion, as I sat on the other end of the phone trying to understand how we ended up in this place of knowing one another so…