Rock me to Sleep (A Poem on Death and Suicide,with Commentary)

Rock me to Sleep
(A poem on Death and Suicide, with commentary)


Suicide is an invitation for death, there are many reasons for it, a fatalistic attitude is good enough for suicide, or rejection of life per se, claiming death is nothing more than a charming quietness thereafter (therefore, a wishful desire; how foolish you may say. On the other hand fear of death can be an awful thing, death in this way of thinking, is a way for lives that are preoccupied with fear, and filled with attempts to win God’s favor and avoid His anger: this way of thinking paralyzes one with fear of death, just the opposite). In any case, many people lean towards the tendency to go to the opposite extreme and find death, wake it up. So I shall give you a poem, one with a poignant final word for, or on death, one that a suicide would use, called ‘Rock me to Sleep’.

We need not give heed to boldness, denial or fear, one need only find Christ, for death is certain, and will come sooner or later anyhow, but during the interim, we may simple remember as death is certain, so is heaven, and there we can bath in our victory, for there in heaven are no powers that can separate us from the love of Christ. And now here is the sad, but true thinking poem, a suicide might ponder on, but first a quote from the Bible; Philippians 1: 23, 24—“I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you (me) that I remain in the body.”


Death oh Death, please rock me to sleep
Where the quiet realm rests for people like me
No worries, no evils, no fear or rise
Out of my breast!…
Lower the coffin, ring the Chapel Bells
Let them tell, of my sorry life
And my scornful quest;
And if death shall not find me
I shall wake it up…to take my life.
For there is no other remedy,
There is no contented light.
So Death, Death, please rock me to sleep,
Where the quiet realm rests for people like me!...


Note: No: 2012 (Oct 10, 2007)

Depression, Suicide, Drugs and Alcohol (In Huancayo, Peru)

Depression, Suicide, Drugs and Alcohol (A short Commentary)


(Written: Oct 3, 2007)

I was reading the papers this last week (from Huancayo, Peru), saw a lot of suicides in them (and I wasn’t surprise to find the results), and people asking “Why this, and that?” Looking for reasons for the ongoing massive suicides in Huancayo (the highest rates for suicides in Peru); and everyone looking in the wrong place, it is the dilemma of depression we are looking at (suicide enhanced by alcohol, in any form).

First of all, there are various reasons for depression and suicide (depression can be a disorder, or a chemical imbalance within us, second, it can be simply sadness, and I’ll talk about that in a moment), but when you drink alcohol, in any form (to include beer) you are getting a double dose of depression. Alcohol is a “Depressant” a drug, this is something no producer of alcohol will admit, or tell you—lest you stop drinking, and God forbid, they lose their profit.

After two beers it becomes a catalyst for depression, like it or not. And if you have any problems at home (or perhaps `poverty, or old age is playing a part in it), or perhaps a loss, like a death in the family, or job, or house, or any loss, alcohol will enhance the state of depression you are already in, and thus, if you have suicide tendencies, the chances are with alcohol you will follow through on them.

In closing, everyone wants the problem to go away, without treatment, change in one’s lifestyle, or effort, just fade into oblivion; and those producing alcohol, want all the rights with no responsibility to continue the way they have, producing, advertising, and buying, and paying those to hide the problem from the public, matter of fact, they get rewards from public officials—how unseeingly can we be. Until we get serious over this issue or problem or call it a situation, it will continue to kill our loved ones.

By License Dennis L. Siluk (Dr. h.c.)