Tag: death
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Major Impacts on Life
My senior year of high school, one of the members of my church passed away from cancer. Her name was Mary Beth. She was a Sunday school teacher for the ninth grade and while she didn’t know it, she helped me understand that being depressed didn’t make me an outcast. In a way, she humanized…
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Give me a Reason
Going through the motionsIdentity’s a messVexatiously discussing thingsEveryone says I should addressMaking lots of plansEnding it all soonAlter my realityRocking through monsoonsEach day keeps dragging onAlways filled with fearScars across my armsOnly noticed when I disappearNow I’m all aloneTrying not to dieOffering small comfortsOnly when I lieLeave me here to bleedI don’t really careVacancy inside…
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Good Pups
TW pet deaths (I need a way to process this and memorialize them.) For almost ten years, before I could even drive, I would pet sit for this family. I was friends with their daughter and even after we drifted apart, I continued working for the family. There were two dogs and a cat. Zoe,…
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The Dance of Death
Crisp autumn leaves clung to their limbsThe wind tore the fragile foliage from their homeHopelessly flying away it falls to the groundThere it lays until it is crushed by whatever creatures may roam Crunching under her feet,the dying leaves dancedTwitching and leaping before crumbling apartOnce bringing life to giants, now blanketing the groundShe fell to…
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Relationship with Death
How does death change your perspective? For many years, I struggled with depression. I hated myself and felt so alone. Back then, death felt like an old friend. I couldn’t wait for it to take me into its embrace and leave my old life behind. It felt as if I was already halfway there. I…
