June 25, 2024
Your light
Olive Jarvis
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Your light
By
Olive Jarvis
Trigger warning - suicide, mental health, loss of a loved one
Our messages became less frequent
Every week became
Every month
And then you slipped away
Into the darkness
That darkness took away your light
As the distance grew
Your light faded away
Until one night
You decided to turn off
Your light for eternity
All I want is to turn that light back on
But I missed my chance
And now I have to go on living
Without seeing your light again
I missed my chance to save your light
Artist statement
This poem is about my experience of losing one of the people I’ve felt closest to, my auntie. She battled with mental health issues and made the decision to take her own life. This decision left me feeling at fault for not doing enough to help her, but also mad that there was nothing I could do to change what had been done. I have experienced mental health issues throughout my life alongside my disabilities, and what I have learnt is that we are never completely alone. Even though my auntie may have felt that ... I will never know, but what I do know is that she was there to make sure I didn’t feel alone.
Poetry and photography are the mediums that have helped me work through my pain, mental and physical - The poems and images I have published here, on Our Site, and on Neve are some examples of my work. For more of Olive's work go to @oliveoctaviaphotography.