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I am the friend that lived

 

 

despite all odds,

fast drunken driving,

every dangerous drug known to man,

extreme sports recklessly executed,

smart-arse words in dangerous company.

 

And the darkest times

when end

seemed like a good idea.

 

I didn’t deserve to live,

but I did.

So many others slipped away

so easily.

I will never understand.

but hope to earn the priviledge

retrospectively.

 

 

— weirdelf, Oct 12, 2007

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Region, Country: Sydney, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard

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RSScheerer

RSScheerer

18 years 8 months ago

Painful

Emotion so raw that it leaves the reader aching with pain and a sense of loss. A note of a lesson learned in the most difficult manner; but a lesson that could not ever be forgotten. Some might judge harshly, but the honesty and regret cannot be denied. Ronda
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Quillsvein1

18 years 8 months ago

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touching and honest commentary on that inescapable feeling a certain lifestyle produces: "why i am here and he's not.." this is a feeling many people will never know. the only thing i would change is: "And the darkest times when end.." "End" is such a broad word, encompassing so many things, i somehow (though this is just my perception) feel something else would be appropriate there. good job!
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 8 months ago

The last time I smoked Meth

I cut my lip,and tongue on the pipe and got blood in the pipe ,the following fight got my friend kicked out of his house. I told him proudly that I had quite Drugs he told me "Go Fuck your self!" I am lucky to be alive,and it is not the damage to my brain that I regret but that one friend I lost. In ink, David ps.when we come through it with nothing to show,we still have words to warn others.