The Honors of Successful Controversy

Worth it or not, you want it,

Or at least the body does.

It takes enormous effort

To go against the body

Determined to keep living

Irrespective of life’s worth,

The reason that suicides

Are both relatively rare

And overly violent.

If the thoughts could cheerfully

Advise the body drifting

Off to sleep, die in deep sleep,

Darling, before the morning,

Or even the morning dreams,

And the body could do so,

The species would soon dwindle

Peacefully, longevity

Being the quirk of a few

Who were mostly curious

And confident they could go

Any time they wanted to.