Romanticism in suicide amongst other things — Summary

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a balcony seems to be the perfect place to be sanguine covered eyelids, trickle to pale lips lean over the edge, let the winds decide your fate find a sweet lover, or callosity pushing you off no hesitation, no blinking. not one little breath nobody has been in love with sallow cadavers remarkable dead people were remarkable first my greatest downfall would be untimely death

you're not alone, you don't have to be alone whispers texts on read, cancelled calls, adieus goodbye messages and vacant lock screens

my worth is not placed inside of other people my sweet honey arms made to love in this life i am made not for ends from romantic balconies but the romanticism found in many other things

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The poem begins by dwelling on the dark glamour of suicide. The speaker pictures a balcony, a lean over the edge, and a death that looks almost like a love story. Then it pulls that fantasy apart. Nobody falls in love with a pale corpse, the speaker says, and people who become remarkable have to live first. The line about "untimely death" being their "greatest downfall" shows the turn: the speaker sees that dying would erase everything they might become.

The middle section is quieter and sadder. It lists the small signs of loneliness, like texts left on read, cancelled calls and empty lock screens, while a voice insists "you're not alone." The final stanza claims a new footing. The speaker's worth doesn't depend on other people, and their "sweet honey arms" were made for loving life. The mood moves from morbid and dreamy to tender and resolved, ending on a hard-won, hopeful choice to find beauty in the world.

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