All These Tales of Suicide

[billy]

different is good, or adds something to the pot. the meter's pretty good, as far as rhyme goes, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it does. i'm okay with that but do think one or the other would add something to the read of it. i enjoyed the read, thanks

Edit:
I'm hearing tales of suicide,
of angst and broken men,
reminding me of harder days,
reliving them again.

The job I went to college for,
I worked ten years, same wage.
A girl I'd trained became my boss.
The bitch then cut my pay.

My marriage rot with wormy lies,
four selfish boys we built,
a house diseased by secret yens,
foundation made of guilt.
I thought, perhaps a better man?
He had his fun and left.
I mixed regret into my troubled mind, a suggestion to get this line on meter would be [with mixed regret my troubled mind
told God I failed the test.

I drove the longest way I knew,
as slowly as I dared.
I dreaded going home to see
the people living there.
The passing woods were calling me
to crash into a tree.
I'd feel no pain. All problems solved
if I just ceased to be.

I'm a lot of things, but coward? No! a suggestion would be to lose the [I'm] the next line infers this one was about you, and it helps with the meter (i think)
I made it home alright.
This shitty life is hard, but hell,
I'm putting up a fight.

Original:
I'm hearing tales of suicide,
of angst and broken men,
reminding me of harder days,
reliving them again.

The job I went to college for,
I worked ten years, same wage.
My boss became a girl I'd trained.
The bitch then cut my pay.

My marriage rot with wormy lies,
four selfish boys we built,
a house diseased by secret yens,
foundation made of guilt.
I thought, perhaps a better man?
He had his fun and left.
I mixed regret into my troubled mind,
told God I failed the test.

I drove the longest way I knew,
as slowly as I dared.
I dreaded going home to see
the people living there.
The passing woods were calling me
to crash into a tree.
I'd feel no pain. All problems solved
if I just ceased to be.

I'm a lot of things, but coward? No.
I made it home alright.
This shitty life is hard as hell.
I'm putting up a fight.