Austin,
You have frighten me, why are you thinking of doing a sin so wrong? Why are you leaving me? Why can't you just wake up and see that I love you, I care for you, I need you? Are you that blind? I know that life may not always go the way you want it to and i know that life isn't fair for if it was you wouldn't be thinking of leaving me. You said you loved me, so why would you go. You said you would always be here for me, but now how can you? You told me you would never hurt me, and yet you are.
I can't even think of what life would be like if you were to leave me. YOU are the best, you are special, and loved. By me and your dad and your mom, and lets not forget GOD! Think of what you would be giving up. School, a life job, a home of your own, a marriage, your parents, your friends, and me. You wouldn't be able to become that great writer you want to be so badly, you won't get to be in love. Wake up Austin, because i do love you and i always will.
Your smile brightens my day, now who will do that for me? You have so much going for you. You have a good life. You have had some bumps in the road but hey i am always there for you, now how can i be? Wake up, because if you die today, you will never get to wake up again, no second chances, no future, no life, it would be over. One long deep sleep and when God comes back you won't be going with him. Don't leave me, you're weak and i am strong, together we can make it. Don't take your last breath, because i want to be the one to do that. To take your breath away with the beauty of life. Live for me, for you, for your parents, for God.
Because if you leave me now, you will never wake up.
~love always
*me
{this really did happen i did lose my best friend, my first love, and my brother in Christ. although i didn't write a letter, but i talked to him. And he was in to much pain to deal. Don't get there listen and get help.
~R.I.P. Austin H.}
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Written August 26th, 2005
A contest entry
- For you, A Sweet Suicide by Loveable Cherub.
300 points, ended January 1, 2001, 4 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Yes, that is why I added the number, and the website.
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I do agree with you that a friend should get help for them. Although i didn't know austin was like that. All i know is one day i talked to him he seemed okay, off but okay. Then the next day his dad and my mom called me at my friends house saying that austin had killed himself. I was in chersterton, IN at the time (not wear i live, i was at a friends house) and i just broke down if i would have knew i would have done something. Why do yoiu have to add that number? for people to call if they need it? You have very good points and ideas.
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Alright, that makes more sense now and it's a very good point to make!! But also, I think that friends should realise that they have a responsibility to their friends to get help for them. Be that telling their parents, or a counselor at school, or bringing them to a clinic. Or even ...pressuring them into calling the National Suicide Hotline.
(Speaking of that, I should add that number in my contest somewhere...) -
WOW! thank you soo much. Umm... i think what i ment was don't get to the point were you feel suicide is the only way, listen to others and get help when you need it. I am not to good a cap. things i don;t know why i just can't haha! but thank you so much i really am glad that you put this contest on the web. in a way it helped me get some of the things i wish i could have said. It as hard losing him but now i know he is better. and i can't wait to see him. Thanks once again! ~Kel-sey09
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Wow! This was EXACTLY what I was talking about when I said, "Anti-suicide letters, please." I could tell exactly what you were saying when you were trying to plead with Austin not to commit suicide. I'm sorry you didn't get the chance to help him. (I don't understand this part of your Author's Comment: "Don't get there listen and get help.")
There were a few grammatical errors (capitalizing "I"s), but it hardly took away from the letter. Great job. You earned the Silver Trophy.
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