Life Is More Precious- Than Death (Bussokusekika)

Edwin Ray Tanguma 1966 (Los Angeles)



Life Is More Precious- Than Death   (Bussokusekika)

With time I have learned
Suicide is not the cure
For that which ails me
I suffer from MST
From when I was a Marine
Life is more precious- than death

Edwin Ray Tanguma   11/18/2022

About this poem

MST=Military Sexual Trauma…Life is much better with the passage of time…Slowly I have been coming to grips with the demons of my past…The hell is not as bad as it once was…And I am no longer obsessed with the thoughts of suicide…

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Written on November 18, 2022

Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on November 18, 2022

Modified by EdwinRayTanguma on November 19, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X AXXAXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 233
Words 44
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 1

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