I need to buy a razor blade,
For what I have planned.
Then run a welcome bath,
And escape this dreary land.
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I made a comment earlier in Dominic Windram's fine poem called Life's Alluring Melody. I mentioned the words about sounding like a manic depressive and the phrase stuck. So this is the result and it was going to end darkly, but then added the last stanza as a moral message of hope to anyone contemplating that sad act. Inspiration I guess is everywhere and thank you Dominic Windram and your more than fine poem Life's Alluring Melody.
Very harrowing poem Shaun with redemption at the end. The rate of suicide here in the U.K is alarming. I wonder how many people have taken their own lives during lockdown..a very, very sad state of affairs. It's definitely a troubled, but light at the end of a long dark tunnel inspired ten from me!