| Painful Goodbyes Erin Routledge Glued to the wall and feet at the edge, the teenage girl stands above a ledge. The ledge so high and mighty tall, the girl debates on whether to fall. She hates her life and everyhing in it, her darkened candle never again lit. She knows she leaves so little behind, as true friends for her she could not find. She thought no one knew the pain she felt, it was too much for anyone to have dealt. She says that no one truly understood, it was almost as if she barely could. Her parents they faught, they hit and abused, and in the end they'd make her choose. Her mother, an alcoholic, and drunk all the time, dividing mother from stranger became a thin line. They pretend that they love her, but with each dying ember, loving, for them, is hard to remember. So she stands in the darkness and all becomes still, the silence is frightening and she senses a chill. She leans toward the edge and looks down below, she looks up at the sky then knows just where to go. She takes a deep breath, spreads her wings as to fly, she jumps off the edge, and wishes the world goodbye. |
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