Open Book

Inspired by accounts of Mark Twain contemplating suicide before his writing career took off

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I put a pistol to my head

And as I slowly squeezed the trigger, saw

an open book on my bedside table

A trifling poem fell to my gaze, and I

paused to read, a smile caressing my lips

And I lowered the gun, finding

a moment of joy in the simplicity

of black letters on off-white page

Since that day I have read 

Of pawns, and kings, deep oceans and

vaulting heavens of stars in black velvet skies

Feeling alive, and free, and a member

of the community of Humanity

All to think, that from the depths of 

despair, one may find the heights of

salvation, within the pages of an open book

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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