Suicides Lament Poem by Rick Elpers

Friendless and alone 
merciless world I bid you adieu 
For it is my time to pass
The signs are there daily
To guide me away even though
Inticements abound lusting 
For my attention that I folly 
To gaze upon knowing
 it will never be to me that 
Such reward should come my way
With the sadness that only
 living can bring 
I long to be and not
Such a quandary to pray for
 life and death in the same breath
And hope for forgiveness 
Strength and courage to face 
The inevitable outcome
Swiftly should it be that 
 I pass to the Lords gift
Of eternal life only to forgo
This one that only I have known 
Good bye