If There is a Better Day

Gentle one,

I am drowning, drowning in my sorrows,

don’t come any closer;

hang in there, by the shallow ends,

don’t drown with me.

A soul is better than two.

Down beneath, there’s more,

more to life, I believe.

Or, otherwise, more to no breath,

so, I thought.

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