When I cast my vote for this wise poem, I did so despite my fierce disapproval of the plural/singular non rhyme enveloped in the first quatrain. I voted for this because I was suicidal myself for a long time, and because I think in its wisdom it is forgiving of those who are guilty of self-murder, some of them my friends. Hans Urs von Balthasar would have admired this poem, and I can't offer much higher praise than that.
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