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This is my suicide note To all my friends and loved ones How can I explain my sorrow? But in my heart I knew this was the only level of control I still had The moment to moment The day breaks softly over the heart of immediacy And so it goes as I slipped into the past I could not take it any longer But I could take that feeling The gentle push of sanity Faith in choice and reason If only I could take that still So say goodbye to everything you knew before Say goodbye to listless seas of calamitous ennui The devil set my course And pardon my lack Of ponderous ambition And slight of hand Because I was never a very good card player So come clever little witticisms That sum up life on a dime Because they make it so much easier Than knowing the ugliest truth Of the eternal empty knowledge Born through beyond doubt Through painfully obvious vision Religious in its scope Oh and did I mention that I’m not dead yet The slope ridden down, shallow then steep And petering out at the end To a third act in a hospital room, Nostalgic and satisfied So here it is My note for the loved ones The ones who could not save me from myself From a fate decided long ago
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
Suicide Note of a Man Still Alive III
This is my suicide note To all my friends and loved ones How can I explain my sorrow? But in my heart I knew this was the only level of control I still had The moment to moment The day breaks softly over the heart of immediacy And so it goes as I slipped into the past I could not take it any longer But I could take that feeling The gentle push of sanity Faith in choice and reason If only I could take that still So say goodbye to everything you knew before Say goodbye to listless seas of calamitous ennui The devil set my course And pardon my lack Of ponderous ambition And slight of hand Because I was never a very good card player So come clever little witticisms That sum up life on a dime Because they make it so much easier Than knowing the ugliest truth Of the eternal empty knowledge Born through beyond doubt Through painfully obvious vision Religious in its scope Oh and did I mention that I’m not dead yet The slope ridden down, shallow then steep And petering out at the end To a third act in a hospital room, Nostalgic and satisfied So here it is My note for the loved ones The ones who could not save me from myself From a fate decided long ago
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
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