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A common profanity

This human malady

Searching to find a way

Out of his own device

Willing to pay the price

By ending his life today

Clutching with helpless hands

Idle shell of a man

In grueling intensity

The weight of his swift decline

Crushes him from inside

Unfathomed immensity

Watching with sullen eyes

The crow's foot intensifies

Inhuman reality

Reflections call out to you

Mirror man reaches to

A fragile mortality

Born into suffering

Through windows of regret

Hope has a ghost of a chance

Life flashed before him

As reality grows dim

Eternity at a glance

A common profanity

This human malady

Searching to find a way

Out of his own device

Willing to pay the price

By ending his life today

The vastness becoming

Unwelcome and numbing

Flashing like second sight

Helplessly falling

Claws reaching and mauling

Pulling him from the light

The body decaying

Eternity claiming

Conditions of human strife

Emotions like crossing swords

Emptiness reaching toward

Renewal of passing life

Born into suffering

Through windows of regret

Hope has a ghost of a chance

Life flashed before him

As reality grows dim

Eternity at a glance