Monday, June 30, 2014
Suicide Comments
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I know the pain of those who passed.
I know the pain of those who last.
I know the cliff where people fall.
I know it well;
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8/6/2025 7:49:02 PM # 1.0.0
Oh, the irony of those two opening lines - which ever path you choose there will be pain; but wait, if the consequences are the same, the choice is not about what comes next in our lives - it's about the quality of the choice, the moral issue of choosing, not what we get from it. At the end of his life my Whitman wrote, THESE THINGS I SEE SUDDENLY WHAT THEY MEAN... THE END I KNOW NOT, IT IS ALL IN THEE. His theism reflects Oedipus at Colonus as well which I re-read last week. Your poem is transparent and whole.