Suicide's Note by Langston Hughes

[ice-9]

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
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this doesn't reflect my current state of mind in any way, but i saw this poem and was just amazed by its clarity. You can almost smell the character's resignation to fate.

 

[rm-rf]

I kinda like Phil Anselmo of Pantera's suicide note a lot more.
WOULD YOU LOOK AT ME NOW?
CAN YOU TELL IM A MAN?
WITH THEESE SCARS ON MY WRIST TO PROVE ILL TRY AGAIN!
Try to die again
Try to live through this night
Try to die again...

 

[Angelight]

 

[fizzygirl]

my third most favorite poet
only behind cummings and shelley
This sounds so simple, like a child's explanation for something they later got in trouble for---or, if one were religious, like an explanation to god..

 

[Dagny]

It reminds me of a river I've stood beside so many times. There is a place, on the Cherokee reservation, in the North Carolina mountains, where hundreds of years of my family is from. My mother took me there when I was a child, and told me many things. I knew that this is where we are born, where we love, where we die - all at the river, under that one lone tree. Thanks iceeie.
(Fizz: of course you are an ee cummings fan. Marry me?)

 

[E-girl]

i liked them both. i'm adding them to my ever-growing collection of quotes that i've saved over the years.

 

[shannabanana]

 

[liec dips]

poets are so sensitive. makes sense they'd have a tendency to off themselves.
-dips-

 

[fizzygirl]

dags