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Truth Repeating

To kill oneself is 
To take from all
One life
One joke 
Was all it took
To drown one person
In a sea of sorrows
But truly drowned a thousand more
One person had no one
But truly had a thousand
A tale to be repeated
Over and over
A sad truth
Till the end of time

Copyright © James Wright | Year Posted 2018