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Book 11 Page 50

Suicide

An attempt at suicide,

An attempt to extinguish, the mighty ‘I.’

Looking for a place to hide,

No longer want to live under earth’s blue skies.

Looking for a place, ‘not to be.’

No longer wants to be, ‘that me.’

Too many places providing pain.

In life’s stormy torturous game.

Wanting desperately a peaceful sleep.

Don’t want no more to weep.

Trying to escape life’s painful grip.

One step over the mountain to slip.

A slip or a jump, feels like I can fool myself, can’t decide!

In two minds about suicide.

Outwardly I cry.

Inwardly I die.

Looking to extinguish the I.

A way out I think! in suicide.

Don’t want no longer to try,

so I look to suicide.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 24/12/99