Death Of A Friend
21 April, 2003
Author: Leah06
You say that you want to end your life
I don't know why
It's really starting to scare me
I try hard not to cry.
You talk about it so much now
Like it dosen't even matter
You don't care anout anything anymore
Your dreams are going to shatter.
It's like your life is already over
The way you act at school
You stoped following your own goals
You think you are so cool.
Now you are into drugs
More and more each day
You steel money from your parents
Just so you can pay.
You party every night now
You come to school tierd and high
You have lost all of your real friends
You make me want to cry.
Your grades are dropping rapidly
You are always in fights at school
Drugs are getting worse
How is this so cool?
My friendship with you is lost
Not that you even care
I love you so much still
It is my turn to share.
Don't let you friends get into drugs
Don't let them skip school
Don't let them fail a class
Belive me it's not cool.
If you don't help them now
It might just be too late
You are helping them die slowly
There is their name and date.
Now it is ingraved in stone
Because you didn't care
Their life is now over
You didn't even share.
It's too late now
They took their last breath
Say good bye to your friend
You lead them to their death.
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Comments on this poem/writing:
| LinzAy (205.188.208.42) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 03:08 pm I saw this happening to one of my best friends when I first met her. I didn't know her all that well but i knew the way she was handling life was gonna get her killed and i wanted to help....despite my parents saying she was a bad influence on me. I thought "sure, maybe she could have an influence on me, but not as strongly as i'll have on on her" Sure enough, we started becoming really good friends and she wanted to hang around with the ppl that coulda lead her to death less and less, meaning she was stopping the dangerous car rides with drunk/high/totally messed up ppl, done with getting high and messed on other drugs too. Her mom thanx me constantly for saving her daughter. It feels really good to know i made a difference in somebody's life...even if that's all i ever do in my life, i know i saved someone....... Good writing 06 :D |
| Roy (152.163.188.197) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 03:33 pm I have two stepsons, one 37 would get his younger brother stoned and lead him to a cliff and if he did not jumpoff then he would push him off! Now his young brother has brain damage and now he's working on his mother and my daughter for 5 years now to undermine my family by phone or letters behind my back as they would not tell for fear I would fly to Alaska to deal with him and then one day with one last call my wife handed me the phone to say no more will you handle this? (then she handed me all the mail) Sick on drugs the heartless wonder as I called the airline for a flight but the girls stop that so I called the State Troopers to comfort him in his crazinest. Well,with that he filed false charges against me. hee hee sorry about the sickning story. I wish I could send him your words!!!! |
| LinzAy (205.188.208.139) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 03:38 pm He is in a place where he can get help now right?! That's not right! How can people in their right mind act like that and do things like that to people? Caused his little brother brain damage? sick..... |
| Roy (64.12.96.78) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 04:57 pm Persistly!!!A SICK UNIT and a dangerous one at that as more is to come---Very sharp mind with a demon inside!!! |
| luc (68.74.145.109) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 05:44 pm i like the poem.. good.. yet a tad um.. dunno.. heh.. whats wrong with driving at high speed while high.. o.O you get a kick out of it.. hehe .. floor it! :P i mean you only live once, like a quote i once heard, "the "brave" may not live long, but the coutious do not live at all" of course there is a point where yeah its to much like these friends of yours, but hey once in a while go for it.. |
| Seizure (65.164.72.2) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 07:49 pm This one was really good Leah06. It reminds me of me actually... for a time I was taking acid, XTC, heroine, crystal meth, and of course weed and alcohol. I couldn't afford food so I took the meth (free hook up), I hated reality so I took the LSD... I wanted to die so I took the heroine. I've lived a million lives and lost at all of them. I quit almost (note the almost) all of it now... but the sad thing is... if someone were to put meth infront of me today, I would probably indulge unable to help it. That's quite the life I have let me tell you... I could write a book. |
| Angelina (65.58.125.62) -- Tuesday, April 22 2003, 11:56 pm Your words are beautiful! |
| Brenda Michelle (209.179.241.126) -- Wednesday, April 23 2003, 03:55 am i am really cring. i can relate so much. my friend died from all that, but the worse part of it was i didn't try to help him, because i did drugs to at that time. i guess that was my reality check, i never did drugs after that!!! you have such a way to write word, great job and keep it up!!!! |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Thursday, April 24 2003, 01:45 am Sorry brenda, i didnt mean to make you cry! Im glad the rest of you liked it though. And roy you can send that gye this poem if you want. |
| Tarna (63.65.186.92) -- Thursday, April 24 2003, 05:43 am Though you want to change a friend sometimes it is not possible. Some people don't want help and all you can do is hopefully be there when their life hits bottom to help them pick up the pieces. Hopefully it doesn't get as far as death. |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Thursday, April 24 2003, 11:53 pm Tarna, There is a huge difference between helping someone ad changing somone. But everything you do effects and changes somone wether it is saying hi or commenting nicly about them, you still change/effect their lives. It is possible to change a friend and to change them you start with yourself. I agree with the help them when they hit rock bottom and help pick up the pices but in this situation there wont be any thing left to pick up. Once they are gone they will never come back. And mot of the time it dose result in death. And hope cant change that. I hop this didnt offend you in any way but this is how i feel. |
| Capricorn (62.30.217.106) -- Friday, April 25 2003, 01:09 am What a heart stirring poem!..not just that but reading yhe comments it's helped people to relate and open up their problems. Very moving! |
| Tarna (63.65.186.112) -- Friday, April 25 2003, 05:37 am No offence taken... It just seemed in the poem that the writer was blaming of self for the situation. Not being strong enough to make a friend say no to what he/she is doing. Perhaps excepting too much responsibility for a sickened mind.. |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Saturday, April 26 2003, 02:02 am Its not that i blame myself for it it is the horrible knowledge that i could have done somthing. (this is not an actual experience, its from a movie actual a song in a movie that made me cry so i put myself in that position and brought out this) I have somany letters from friends or people i have just talked to once saying the hate their lives and asking for help. If you joined the message forum and you read half the things i write you would notice that i help others. You have a bad day you come to me to talk to. I am here for every person who needs me. I may be 15 but i can make a difference. And so can all of you. By just telling a friend that you care can save a life. So yes, if i know somone wants to keill themselvs or they are doing drugs and i have the oppertunity to help them and i dont and they die, of corse i blame at least half of that on me. even if they them selfs could have stoped. The point is, if you know somone is going through the stuff in my poem, just dont let the reject your help and comfort no matter how much they say they hate you or push you away because you can make a difference. You just need to try. |
| Amanda (24.211.194.54) -- Friday, June 20 2003, 01:46 am I can understand this poem because a friend of mine just died |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Monday, June 23 2003, 05:11 pm Dose that mean you are crying or do you not like my poem or what? Thanks for posting whats on your mind though, Your comments mean a lot to me. |
| heather (64.12.96.78) -- Sunday, August 3 2003, 05:46 am I really liked the poem but my best friends funeral was last wensday she took too much and went to sleep, she never woke up. how can u point fingers at the friends i did evrything in my power to help her, but she did not want help, when someone is that far gone there is nothing u can do, they have to reach out. she was 17 and her hole life she felt nohing but anger and pain, i miss her more than anythingan i do feel guilt everyone does even if i was there that time i might not have been the next time to stop her from sticking a needle in her arm..... |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Tuesday, September 9 2003, 11:51 pm This poem was mainly written to stop a friend of mine for doing the things your friends have done or are doing. But if you didnt try to help them then i think it is your fault because you didnt try. If you did then its not your fault, your tried and thats all that matters. Im glad you liked it. |
| lilocrazyminniehershy (198.81.26.16) -- Sunday, October 12 2003, 01:04 am yes u are right.. my friend did die.. i regret not helpin him... but what could i have done.. huh... i so angry.. cause he did suiside.. but all has been done.. so there nuthing else to do but accept that he gone and that he's in a better place now.. |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Tuesday, October 14 2003, 02:44 am im sorry about your friend. If you need to talk, im here. I hoped you enjoyed this poem. |
| Shenai (217.134.34.121) -- Thursday, October 16 2003, 08:48 pm Today my friend tried to commit suicide because some boys were trying to blow her up 2 days with a fire work by putting it under her skirt. She saw them today and became very distressed and began cutting up her hands with scissors and putting it close to her heart. She threatened that if anyone took it away from her she would jump in front of a bus that was on its way. She was really going to do it and more than 10 people had to hold her back. Earlier that day she was fine then when she stepped out into the world and saw them she went mental. We all began to cry. Your friend is safe with God and his Angels now there is no need to worry. |
| Leah06 (12.232.5.189) -- Tuesday, October 21 2003, 11:46 pm i am sorry about your friend. A friend of mine tried to kill herself latley and i told a councelor at school about it and when she saw me crying there in the office when she was called in, she knew why she was there. This happened a week ago today. She is so mad at me for what i did, but i know i did the right thing. I love her with all my heart and she is one of the greatest people in the world that i have ever met. And even though she hates me now, the fact that i saved her life and made and impact outweighs any feeling she may have towords me. I hope someday she will realize what i have done for her. Im glad your friend is ok and i hope she will get the attention she needs. I hope you liked this poem and thank you for sharing your story. |
| jb (204.108.80.10) -- Tuesday, November 18 2003, 08:10 pm I was depressed for a long time and all I could think about was death. The only thing keeping me alive right now is the love that I have and get from someone very special in my life. |
| Leah06 (24.5.241.141) -- Tuesday, November 25 2003, 02:47 am i hope your life will get better soon. thanks for reading my poem, i hope it gave you something to think about. im here if you need to talk. Leah Kendall |
| jessikah (67.2.59.244) -- Friday, February 27 2004, 03:44 am i dont believe in changing a persons life.it is there life and they are able to do what they want when they want and make there own choices no matter who says what.im in this same situation i do drugs here and there and choose to do what i want and for me living my own life how i want im losing my best friend its wrong.my best friend should understand its my life and shes not that great of a friend if she cant except me for who iam.yah its great that she cares and i dont like to worry her but i dont see my self as out of control and its one thang to give a friend good advice and sit down and let u know they care or share what they think bout all of it but they have no right telling u what to do thats how i look at all this good poem! |
| Meridian (152.163.252.34) -- Monday, March 1 2004, 08:14 pm What a good way to enforce it Leah06!!!!!!! This poem has a great message behind it for those who started on the wrong foot or got off track. |
| Leah06 (206.110.20.2) -- Saturday, March 6 2004, 12:35 am I wrote this because this is how i feel, when i walk around school and i see thease marble plaques for every student's that lives had ended while they attended my highschool. there are about 10 over all, just last year a boy died of cancer. And all the time people are standing near those memorials doing drugs, drinking, and stuff like that after and before school. What would you do if your best frined died because of drugs or alcohal? Thats why i wrote this, and im glad you both liked it. |
| Danyelle Luberda (216.145.204.243) -- Wednesday, March 10 2004, 07:39 pm I believe ur poem is awsome but i do not agree that if someone dies cuz u dunt help its ur fault cuz its not! sometimes u have to realize when to step out of others life...If their ur friends have confidence in them...I dated a guy for almost 3 years and he asked me to marry him when i told him no he told me he was going to commit suicide...I told him i loved him and thats all i could do..The next day ...on my birthday...i got a call from him mother while at volleyball practice saying he had shot himself!! he oviously had some other problems so its not always that one person fault...when God wants them theres nothing ne one else can do!! just let the people u love kno cuz tomarrow isnt garuenteed to ne of us... |
| Jessica (204.228.117.202) -- Monday, March 15 2004, 03:57 pm I like you poem can i wus it. |
| Leah06 (24.5.241.141) -- Tuesday, March 23 2004, 01:46 am danyelle, i do agree, he might have had other problems, but it only takes one person to make a difference. If somone else would have talked to him in depth about it, he could still be alive. Just like the Holocaust, all those events leading to it and all, not that i enjoy quoting hitler but he said "if one person would have stoped us, we would have ran abck to germany like a dog with a tail inbetween our legs". Jessia, you can use it. |
| jessica (67.161.220.142) -- Tuesday, March 23 2004, 08:44 am this poem is very true, i came to this site looking for poems to comfort my best friends mom because just yesterday my best friend died..she started hanging out with stupid people and she got into drugs really bad..well someone gave her pills and she mixed them with alcohol..she wanted to sober up so she went in the bathroom to take a bath. the next morning her mom came to pick her up and she was under the water. she drowned..so far they say its because of the mix of drugs and alcohol. Dont sit back and watch your friends do this. its the same exact thing as sitting there and watching them drown without doing anything to help...drugs are so not worth it. my best friend was 15 she still had so much ahead for her |
| Leah06 (24.5.241.141) -- Wednesday, March 24 2004, 02:21 am im sorry about my friend, but i am glad you read my poem and shared your experience. i hope everything will be ok, and she lived a happy life. |
| Sarah (69.109.240.186) -- Friday, November 3 2006, 05:19 am i think the poem who ever wrote is great and amazing. i thought of using it for my english project and i did. i hope that you write more poems like ths all the time GOOD LUCK thank you so much i really love your poem it really touched my heart bye |
| Leah06 (137.150.199.165) -- Saturday, January 27 2007, 11:51 pm Yes, i am the writer of this poem. And im glad you liked it. |
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