Feeling
I remember being thirteen or fourteen,
In the car one Saturday morning,
Heading home from our weekend camping spot.
I remember my mom telling me that
The girl who was like an older sister to me
Had swallowed a handful of pills the night before
And had to have her stomach pumped.
She said she didn't want to die
And we believed that.
Even now, I don't think that was her goal;
I think she just wanted to stop feeling.
You see, she had just broken up with her boyfriend of two or three years
He was the first guy she'd trusted
After being molested years before.
And while none of us liked him,
She loved him.
That kind of betrayal doesn't stop hurting for a long time.
And every time I pick up a bottle of pills
And think about taking just a few too many
I think of her.
I think of how she broke down the following weekend
When he drove past us in his truck
And how she showed me the marks
Where the nurses had tried to hit a vein for her IV
I think of how broken she was.
And how, like her, I don't want to die either.
I just want to stop feeling.
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Power poetry..... Life is not easy, but it's always better than the void of death