March 13, 1993 2:45 a.m. poetry by Michael F. Nyiri


"Poetical Suicide"

She lay beside me
and she yearns to die
She holds her life inside her
Only occasionally letting
out a memory.

Too many people have crammed
their needs and wants into her
psyche
And at times she feels she's
all used up.

I listen to her and question
this
Even as I empathize

Because
lately I feel a cry more often
myself

I needed companionship with
just her kind
I feel the universal coupling
occasionally when I'm with her

And I can't let her know
I wish to commit
Poetical suicide and die
And feel how it feels to fade away
1993

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