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Want To Live

Edward Hubbard 1983 (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Haiku
I am completed
Embracing all of my soul
I want to live now

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I've been struggling with suicidal thoughts more from an indifference to my life due to my depression. After doing some energy work alongside my regular therapy, I had a MAJOR paradigm shift. This haiku is what I wrote right after.

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Written on April 15, 2024

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Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 58
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
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