AND BY THAT KNOWLEDGE WE WILL BE JUDGED.
| TEAR STAINED EYES THE TRAIL I FOLLOWED WAS DARK AND LONG, I COULDN'T HELP IT THE CHOICE I MADE WAS WRONG. AS I WALKED I SAW MANY STRANGE THINGS; SOME THAT SLITHER ON THEIR STOMACHS, OTHERS BEARING FEATHERED WINGS. SOUNDS OF THE DARK MYSTERIOUS NIGHT FILLED MY HEAD WITH INSANITY. FALLING ON MY KNEES I CRIED AND WEAPED, FOR THIS WAS NOT WHERE I LONGED TO BE! SUDDENLY A BRIGHT RED FOG ENTERED THE TRAIL I FOLLOWED, AN EMPTY FEELING WAS FELT ALL AROUND, MY BODY FEELING HOLLOW. I STEPPED BACK TO SEE A CREATURE NOTHING LIKE THE REST, SO BIG AND SO MUCH POWER WAS UPON HIS MIGHTY BREAST. HE SAID SO PLAIN AND CLEARLY, YOU SHALL PAY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE ! YOU HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME FOR WAS YOU WHO HELD THE GUN! FOR WAS YOU WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER AND LET THE MIGHTY BULLET BLOW AND NOW AND THRU FOREVER THIS ACT YOU'LL UNDERGO. A LIFETIME FULL OF LAUGHTER WAS PASSED UP DUE TO YOU SELFISHNESS NEED NOT ABIDE THE PLAIN YOU PUT YOURSELF THROUGH. STUPIDITY IS WHAT YOU CLAIM FOR PASSING THIS LIVE BY SO NOW THROUGH ETERNITY, YOU'LL BE DOOMED WITH TEAR STAINED EYES. SUICIDE IS SUICIDE NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU GO, IT STILL BRINGS HURTFUL SORROW TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. TEARS CAN NOT UNDO THIS DEED ONCE IT IS DONE NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO TO, THERE WILL BE NO WHERE TO RUN. THIS SIN IS UNFORGIVEN SO BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU CHOOSE, FOR A LIFETIME UP IN HEAVEN, IS SOMETHING YOU CAN LOOSE! ASHLEY 14 |
| THIS POEM WAS WRITTEN BY A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL, THAT LOST A CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND TO SUICIDE, AS THE POEM IS READ WE CAN FEEL THE YOUNG GIRLS ANGUISH AND CONFUSION OF WHY A SMILING HAPPY MAN WOULD GO TO SUCH EXTREMES TO LEAVE HIS LIFE HERE WITH HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND CHOOSE A LIFE OF DARKNESS.
WE NONE KNOW TO WHAT DEGREE OF UNDERSTANDING A PERSON HAS AT THE TIME ONE WOULD TAKE HIS OR HER LIFE, ONLY GOD HOLDS THAT KNOWLEDGE. AND BY THAT KNOWLEDGE WE WILL BE JUDGED. |