Escape

I want to escape from this world

I want to escape my body.

I feel like it is time for me to leave.

Life is so hard.

I don’t want any more pain.

I don’t want to hear about any more problems.

Life is for a person who is strong.

Not for a person like me who is so weak.

Here I go in 3, 2, 1

Goodbye to all.

I hope that life will be better without me.

I took the gun from daddy’s bedroom.

I struck it in my body.

I have a tear going down my cheek.

As my little brother comes into my room,

I pull the trigger.

I am gone and life is not any better.

I made it so much harder for everyone else.

But I saw God and he held my hand.

By Sheryl Baird