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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Expectations
March 15, 1992
do you ever wonder what it is like to die
would you be surprised if I told you I knew
not first hand, of course
else this tale untold would be
but close, a friend of mine
her name is unimportant, a twist twixt her and me
to you, a nothing, unremembered
the face that death will enter slowly
a specter of night ��s shadow
she started easily, you know, lying on her bed
almost looking comfortable
just a wheeze and a drag on her cigarette
pale skun ��
nothing really wrong ��
youth so sure of everything
I came to visit every now and then
as her reality started to sift over me
thinner, straining to light her cancer sticks
inhaling destruction until the end
I watched her waste away, you see
the hardest part I have ever played alone
and always told her I was happy to be there
wanting only to look away
from how the pain set in
she would look at me unknowing
or lie and moan, cough up blood
what could I do
this was my friend
she left late one night
no one told me she was gone
just said, you can ��t go see her today
so I stayed home, not knowing death existed
I found out truth a few weeks later
no one bothered to tell me
parents
I give you this
it is your duty to tell children everything
the good and bad will reach them
best that first come words
I only knew my friend did not want to see me
later, only that she hadn ��t said goodbye
death was a place people visited
indeed a cruel beast, unfit for children
but that which is breaches barriers
do not think to save pain
for pain adds pain in the unreal
even as a child I knew the lie
never forgot
I still miss my friend
and I never forgave a lie
she doesn ��t want to see you today-
dead two weeks since,
even a child could hear the lie
children see the world
this may be why my writing is
all that I see going wrong
for holding everything tight into myself
exposition or explode
and if I ever see a lie
therein bides my anger
memories more real than my now
and though I try to work it out
I can only write of it
for death is never spoken
you must never think again, my child
never trust or feel
for if you do not shut yourself away
you may loose your mind
and I did not know the answers
hurt in suspicion of the now
unable to look out of this shell
I know now that I died beside her
those many years ago
illusion ripped way, useless sheets
this you see is my why
how I know how to die
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