What is preserved <br />To the last drop of hope <br />To which man has entitlement <br />A vessel with a passenger <br />To which there is a solemn clause <br />Never to surrender in will or spirit <br /> <br />Yet man relinquishes his tryst with form <br />A star in the twilight sky <br />Summoned to the cataclysm <br />Of a meteoric supernova <br /> <br />For man extinguishes all flames <br />His burning will to perpetuate <br />To his final chapter <br />His fated last breath, his final dance <br />With the perennial soul <br /> <br />For the strain of pneuma <br />That traverses the labyrinths within <br />Is pledged by god to all of humanity <br />To which there is a nemesis - the man on the mirror <br /> <br />For each river is promised an estuary <br />Except when man builds his dam <br />For suicide is the truncation of a span <br />True salvation for the myopic man<br /><br />Dilantha Gunawardana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/suicide-365/
