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Suicide Note Anxiety One copy-paste drunken night while I tried to write, My most honest farewell to life; my magnum opus - ‘Ode to Hopelessness’; detailing my internal strife, Of perpetual bided time, line by melancholic line. I had seen more than enough, this was my bowing out - I had fought off the cuff, this was my final bout. Awkwardly I slouched, balancing pen and paper, On a pillow as I wrote; seated at the foot of my bed. My bare desk-less room, entirely ergonomically unsuitable; Acting as a crucible of doomed creative peace, Hamstringing my masterpiece, keeping one foot out of the grave, Delaying the curtain fall that I craved. Undeterred by back ache, accentuated by July's frost, I soldiered on strong with my penchant pen march across the page; Prophet of doom, romantic poet of gloom, cross-hung sage - Laying waste to the blank space, slaying the canvas’ face of potential. A firm rebuttal of existence with substantial dooming evidence, My final revelation to the Gospel of Nihilism. As the crescendo of my written swan song approached; Proclamation of the submission to sorrow, admission of tomorrows veto - I emptied the wine bottle into my highball glass, a toast to the past. My last supper ritual without friend, lover or disciple; Observation of the isolation that had become habitual, suitable for the occasion, Appreciation and recognition of the Orsonwellian lonerism credo. I dug in the bedside chest, searching for pharmaceutical treasures - Lab created capsuled sleep facilitators, numbing agents of corporate agenda. These venomless, vectorless powdered poisonous incapacitators - Would close my final chapter with a Cleopatra styled farewell. Into my hand I emptied the pillbox: insomnia's nemesis, synthetic slumber seductress; Fluteless charmer hoping to induce a rest of eternal sunsets. da mihi perpetua una dormienda
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Feb 26
Feb 26, 2026 at 6:32 AM UTC
Ode to Hopelessness
Suicide Note Anxiety One copy-paste drunken night while I tried to write, My most honest farewell to life; my magnum opus - ‘Ode to Hopelessness’; detailing my internal strife, Of perpetual bided time, line by melancholic line. I had seen more than enough, this was my bowing out - I had fought off the cuff, this was my final bout. Awkwardly I slouched, balancing pen and paper, On a pillow as I wrote; seated at the foot of my bed. My bare desk-less room, entirely ergonomically unsuitable; Acting as a crucible of doomed creative peace, Hamstringing my masterpiece, keeping one foot out of the grave, Delaying the curtain fall that I craved. Undeterred by back ache, accentuated by July's frost, I soldiered on strong with my penchant pen march across the page; Prophet of doom, romantic poet of gloom, cross-hung sage - Laying waste to the blank space, slaying the canvas’ face of potential. A firm rebuttal of existence with substantial dooming evidence, My final revelation to the Gospel of Nihilism. As the crescendo of my written swan song approached; Proclamation of the submission to sorrow, admission of tomorrows veto - I emptied the wine bottle into my highball glass, a toast to the past. My last supper ritual without friend, lover or disciple; Observation of the isolation that had become habitual, suitable for the occasion, Appreciation and recognition of the Orsonwellian lonerism credo. I dug in the bedside chest, searching for pharmaceutical treasures - Lab created capsuled sleep facilitators, numbing agents of corporate agenda. These venomless, vectorless powdered poisonous incapacitators - Would close my final chapter with a Cleopatra styled farewell. Into my hand I emptied the pillbox: insomnia's nemesis, synthetic slumber seductress; Fluteless charmer hoping to induce a rest of eternal sunsets. da mihi perpetua una dormienda
Rob_Bruwer
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Cape Town
Feb 26
Feb 26, 2026 at 6:32 AM UTC
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