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Sometimes, when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death The only thing in the world, that is promised to every soul And granted to every being is death Its strange you see, my fear of dying contradicts many of my thoughts Sometimes when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death I pictured my plump body lurching off of a building And plummeting into a deep mysterious water, never to be seen again Sometimes when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death I would fantasize about sticking the barrel of a gun down my throat Allow my finger to linger on the trigger, and blow my brains out Sometimes when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death And yet- I am afraid of the one thing I long for.
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Mar 8
Mar 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM UTC
The Thing I Long For
Sometimes, when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death The only thing in the world, that is promised to every soul And granted to every being is death Its strange you see, my fear of dying contradicts many of my thoughts Sometimes when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death I pictured my plump body lurching off of a building And plummeting into a deep mysterious water, never to be seen again Sometimes when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death I would fantasize about sticking the barrel of a gun down my throat Allow my finger to linger on the trigger, and blow my brains out Sometimes when I close my eyes at night The only thing I can imagine is death And yet- I am afraid of the one thing I long for.
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Mar 8
Mar 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM UTC
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