<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364207" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Singular Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stood on the edge of Beachy Head<br>But this was not the sunshine day he had expected<br>It was windswept and rain threatened<br>He had wanted to smile<br>‘This is not the way’ he thought<br>Later in his room he began to question his resolve<br>So, slowly very slowly, he slit his wrists<br>The staff found him<br>At the hospital he felt happy and contented<br>He was still there<br>He was alive<br>The closeness of death’s acquaintance giddied him<br>It was then he realised that he had visited Beach Head wholly unprepared<br>He must not escape<br>He must put things in order<br>He estimated his life’s savings<br>He calculated his debt – largely credit cards<br>He decided to rid himself of all those clothes that we all keep and never wear<br>He destroyed his address book.<br>Then he went out for a meal<br>‘Good scoff’ he thought to himself walking back alone on the front at Brighton<br>Pebbles underfoot and the Pier’s lights dancing garishly over the water<br>The sea beckoned<br>He could hear it from his hotel room and it seemed to say ‘be safe be safe be safe’<br>And those lights kept dancing<br>By now, he wanted new rooms<br>For he had become a rather private man though still gregarious in public<br>The staff were beginning to annoy him<br>They had heard of his slashed wrists at his previous hotel<br>All he wanted was anonymity<br>So he moved<br>And moved again<br>And kept on moving<br>His affairs, however, were now in good order<br>So, he could kiss the wind and bless the sun alone at Beachy Head<br>He was there and then no more <br>And all those lights stopped dancing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Keig">David Keig</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364207" data-title="A Singular Man de David Keig" data-description="He stood on the edge of Beachy Head But this was not the sunshine day he had expected It was windswept and rain threatened He had wanted to smile ‘This is not the way’ he thought Later in his room he began to question his resolve So, slowly ve..."></div> </div> </div>

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