View from 'Suicide Seat'
In memory of precious lives lost by suicide
Donated by survivors, Weston Park, Canberra
Although the world is full of suffering
It is full also of the overcoming of it
(seat inscription, Helen Keller)
No emergency now
on this early forsaken morning
with no warmth to this part of day
there are no children floundering out of parental eye
nor bathers out of depth in deep distress
the life-line stands redundant in the chill air
winter removes
as nature takes a sleeping tablet
while across the far side of the lake
the wind stirs life to water
and people collect at a picnic shelter
and shake off these lines that entangle
on this early forsaken morning
with no warmth to this part of day
there are no children floundering out of parental eye
nor bathers out of depth in deep distress
the life-line stands redundant in the chill air
winter removes
as nature takes a sleeping tablet
while across the far side of the lake
the wind stirs life to water
and people collect at a picnic shelter
from the
dead-still of a reflective moment
I move away
into the living morningand shake off these lines that entangle
Richard
Scutter 8 June 2010 (amended June 2014)
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