How the World Should Work

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Important Disclaimer

This poem addresses depression, and more specifically, suicide. It is meant only as an expression of art, and should not be taken in any real-life context.

If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or tendencies, there are many resources that can help.

National Suicide Prevention #

1-800-273-8255

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

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Wish

I wish I may

I wish I might

I wish to get through one more night

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To fight through pain

This midnight rain

These tears that pour down with it now

Let me hold on

Thoughts, please begone

I try but fear I don’t know how

The hurt, it rests inside my chest, a heart that’s heat could solder iron

Burns within with every sin and all their metaphoric fire

I beg release

A soothing peace

Things which only live in dream

Hope, bare to me

A Winter’s tree

Thirsting for just one small stream

The hollowed wood is truth, you see

It lies there in melancholy

Dead, or dying, all alone

Drifting into dark unknown

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I wish I may

I wish I might

Please grant me strength to live, tonight