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Granted

Everything I know I have assumed.

 

A sense of shame and humility, bewilderment.  I don’t know where to start.

 

Everything is a gift! In some capacity or another - it wasn’t ours to begin with.

 

Is it just my nature? Is that what I owe to history? Assumption?

 

I don’t want to participate if it has to be this is how we “behave”.

 

Yet my pain is so intense when I have to go without these addictions I’ve adapted myself to be born into.

 

I know no other way. Every path has led me back to this conclusion. I fight and lose my fury. I run but I can’t escape. I eat but am never satiated. My CALM is a sense of unrest.

 

But I keep you, and I feel you will always be with me.

 

Writing my suicide note with my one unconscious hand and shooting me with the other.

 

A sicko ****** fantasy. I’m sure you could bet on it. Just put it on my tab!

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Written by
andrew-kerklaan
Canadian
Published
Jan 14, 2021
Lines·Words
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Notes

Started off as a revelation about how everything that we use is something that someone else made/invented before you were ever even a thought but it turned into a self reflection about suicidal depression.

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