Song for an Attempted Suicide
Tell yourself you are equal, Tell yourself till you die • That the attempt you made was not lethal, And do not live a lie. Love you have found conies deeper From friend and stranger too. They see you as a groper And, like a child, love you.
Only let no one come And cure too fast your pain.
Do not let treatment dim What you'll not know again.
The water need not be bitter That you drink, nor the pills you take.
Oh you arc getting better When taste and touch come back.
Lucky you say you were That at'the very last Moment, someone could stir And put death in the past. Though poetry and love May leave you for a time, You have found out enough The Alps of life to climb.
Chiefly to two you owe That nothing has been snatched ,Forever now from you, The drugs have not bewitched. You love things more now but In a quite different way.
All this these two have taught But imperceptibly.
Fl .IFNNINCi
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