Death of a Friend, Death of a Relationship

What is Death?

Is it the closing of my eyes,

after years of pain,

stress and all the other things that came with this life.

After you hung my people on that big, oak tree,

in my small city and you tell me that I can't touch it because its sacred.

After she got sick and couldn't walk or talk to me

and I left her because she was scared, then she went home and died.

Is death what I always dreamed it would be,

after you hit me and I layed my head down and took it and cried?

Is it closing your eyes after the doctor tells you that you have a disease

and your heart drops and you cry?

Or is it when you're alone, in the dark,

and nobody hears your screams,

your agony, your blood, and your tears.

Your hunger, the tiredness of your body, the ring of dirt in your tub,

the scars, the beatings, the lies,

the anger, the tears, the casket, the flowers,

the sun, and moon and...........

What the hell is death?

By: Cierra Griffin

I got the call that Karen had passed away.  Then I just sat there, in disbelief.  I remember speaking with my other line-sisters and we were all in disbelief.  I was afraid, I felt like I had let her down somehow, like why couldn't I save her?  My line-sister, my friend, my roommate, my voice of reason, shoot she was the voice of reason for all of us - then she died.  That was 2009. The time when I needed him the most, he could care less.  One of times that I needed him the most, when I just needed a shoulder to cry on, he was like naw.  His excuse was that I had broken up with him, so why did he have to be there for me. True, but the love didn't stop.  I was thinking that at least you still love me right?  So if you love me, then you could at least console me, but nope.  So i made him comfort me and that's the worst feeling in world.  To know that the person you love, the person you came to know, to know that they won't even hold you because the relationship ended, that was hard.