The man who kills a man
- kills a man.
The man who kills himself
- kills all men.
He wipes the world away with one act.
Worse than any dynamic outrage,
Single-handedly incinerates,
Pillages, rapes, plunders, and attacks.
The thief is satisfied with diamonds,
But suicide cannot be silenced.
It cannot be bargained with,
And it cannot be bribed by finance.
The thief compliments the things he steals,
But suicide insults all the time.
It defiles every creature alive,
For there is none whom death does not sneer.
When a man hangs himself on a tree,
The leaves might fall off in anger, and
The birds might fly away in fury -
Indignity for such a scandal.
When a man commits this sort of crime,
It is disparate from other types.
It must be held as different, for
It even makes crimes impossible.
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PoetryA collection of poems by Sean Arturo Last. You are encouraged to leave your interpretations in the comments. -- © All Rights Reserved (No unauthorized copy, distribution, transmission, or alteration of the work.)
