1.

Vindicate my vilification.

2.

The sky reached it’s hands out to caress my carelessness.

3.

Light up my marrow and splash it on all of sense and reason.

4.

Let me not care anymore about the life and lies I lead.

5.

Grind my grit to paste.

6.

Paint me in weak colors.

7.

Panorama view of my pity.

8.

Plank the splintery wood on my back and let me feel the breaking binary bends.

9.

Pick my pensions clear of prophetic visions of dream scape futures.

10.

Predict the end of the world.

11.

Predict the end of your world.

12.

Predict the end of my world.

13.

It was never about me.

14.

Think of the pain.

15.

Far off from understanding that being suicidal is not wanting to die.

Make the sinew stretch back into living tissue because to be suicidal is to try not to live.

16.

I want to live by my own standards.

© 2016 Jared “I.J” Steinberg. All Rights Reserved.

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