Yes, it's a poem, but it's based on my interpretation of Moritz' thoughts just before his suicide. So it works.


I've been stumbling

through this dark forest

every night now,

the cool metal of the gun

pressed upon my fingers.

And every night

I raise the barrel

to my skull

with a shaking hand.

But every night

I wait another day.

What's the point?

My world crumbles around me,

and as I stand

among the rubble,

I think to myself,

Wouldn't it be

better if I just…

disappeared?