How to save a life

“Step one you say we need to talk,
he walks, you say sit down it’s just a talk,
He smiles politely back at you,
You stare politely right on through”
If only they would listen…
If only I could go back in time, to that night. Cherry. She jumped off the roof of a hospital. She drank until she found courage to swallow those pills. Called the cops on herself. That is what amazes me the most. Why had she called the cops? Why? If she was just going to go and jump off that building? I just want to go back in time, know the reason my aunt killed herself. Never did give a reason. It shocked me so much… Always smiling, laughing, making jokes… Now that I look back on it, that is exactly what I do… Laugh it off. Now that I finally figured out my problems, my best friend wants to kill himself. He says he wont. Cherry never said anything to me… But she told the doctors she was fine. Told my step mom she wasn’t depressed. I look back at what happened, and I want to hate the doctors who didn’t keep her longer, weren’t there to make sure she didn’t keep trying to kill herself… She should have been on suicide watch. But somehow she got to that roof top and jumped. I just don’t want this to be another Cherry.