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Poetic Form: Verse
Inspired: 2024 September 22
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I saw the river ~ inviting The river saw me ~ anticipating A rock of ages ~ my savior My last breath I ~ surrender For a life that has been long ~ gone The river of life and i are now ~ one For my cousin Delbert 35 ~ mental illness sufferer 79 year old Mom did know he left the house ~ river is behind Boys fishing for Tilapias over the bridge saw him going ~ out to sea His body was never found by Rescue Squad ~ family waited one week after RS call ending search of his body notifying family ~ Aloha Del Boy. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline 911Emergency number

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Date: 11/20/2024 8:42:00 AM
I just found this write from you. So Very Sorry..... I miss you writing. Hope you are OK... Have a blessed day writing away...................
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Hilo Poet
Date: 1/3/2025 10:02:00 AM
Though you answered closer to my still belated response, unlike Victor, it still occasions a sadden outcome. I'm fairing along well enough to acquire the use of the wheelchair yesterday as I'm regaining my strength, Paula. Mahalo~William
Date: 9/26/2024 8:47:00 AM
I never contemplated suicide, so I cannot relate much. Yet, I can envisage a situation when a person loses all hope and commits suicide. Pity help is rare for such people.
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Date: 1/3/2025 9:51:00 AM
Found among 200 unanswered...I agree that those who are cornered in their lifetime to contemplate that being the only option, I cannot fathom that thought as my mind would be too busy entertaining reaching out, desperate for added support to resolve the realization that I don't have all the answers. Mahalo, Victor with my apologies for my belated response. Aloha~William
Date: 9/22/2024 11:59:00 AM
Interesting poem, pleasure reading
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Hilo Poet
Date: 9/22/2024 1:43:00 PM
He doesn't know structural language but now he does ~ theirs a slightly older cousin in need now. Aloha

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