Too Many, Too Young

• by Antionette Nero
• 5 years ago

I just had to say my final goodbyes to a childhood friend Saturday and have to do it again this Wednesday. When God is ready to call you home, you must go. It's a hurtful feeling, I know, but God knows best...

• by Zabdy Monroy, Jalisco
• 9 years ago

Hi! I'm 14 years old. I'm too young for this. We all are. When I was 11, my dad died. A couple of months latter my 11-year-old cousin died too. For the next couple of months people in my family started dying. That changed way too much. My mom became a totally different person; way too careless, but way too careful. I don't know if that makes sense, but... I have two younger siblings and the little sister of my cousin that died to take care of. It is hard. I just wish things were different. I just wish people didn't die young, because I need them. We need them.
I feel like I've got the world in my shoulders. I want to be good and strong, but it's too much. People tell me I don't have to be strong, but if I'm not what would be of my siblings? I can't break down, but I do. I fight it but I can't. I want to be strong for them.

• by Nethanye Rodriguez
• 9 years ago

Hi, I'm Nethanye I'm 15 years old and just like anyone else who commented about your poem, I lost my best friend in the whole world by suicide. I'm emo and so was my best friend Matt and I had met him when I got places in the same room as him cause I got sent to a mental hospital and after we met we just hit it off after a week of shyness and my sentence was a year and his ended two months before mine since he had been there longer than me. And one month before he could leave he committed suicide in our room while I was sleeping during the night and I woke up to him hanging from the ceiling and that was 5 or 6 years ago and it still scares me for life. He died when he was 11 and I was 10 and I miss him like crazy and I blame myself for his death.

• by Katie Newton Aycliffe
• 10 years ago

I'm 17 years old and I lost my very best friend we were always together and spent all our school years together till 1 horrible day we were in the car on our way home and then that's when the accident happened. We got crushed in between a car and a van and my best friend got out of the car first and was air lifted straight to hospital and I was trapped in the car and I couldn't breath so the fire crew had to get me untangled but 1 hour later I was free out of the car and on my way to hospital. They all thought I wasn't going to make it cause I didn't respond to anything. I was in a coma but after 4 weeks off being in a coma I was back in my bed in hospital and then I was told that my friend had to go. I had to go and say my goodbyes to her as they turned her life support machine off 4 weeks on a life support machine and then she slipped away straight away. I knew this was going to happen but it was still hard I cried myself to sleep. I cried everyday just knowing that I watched her slip away. I was in hospital for 2 months before I was allowed home I was allowed to attend the funeral the day I was dreading having to stand up in front off all my school mates and everyone that loved her and read my poem but as I promised her I would sing the song she wanted me to. It was called If I let you go by westlife then after the funeral people came and seen me before going back to hospital and then after 2 months I returned home and nothing was the same. I knew it was ruined forever I hate myself for what happened even though I was hurt more then her and I couldn't walk or move. People laid flowers outside my house for me and say I have to keep strong even though all I wanted was to curl up in a ball and cry all I wanted was the pain to be over....

• by Kaitie
• 10 years ago

Sweetie, I understand. I come from a rough life too. I'm now 17 but my daddy passed away when I was 5 and not a year later my mom got really sick. I was stuck raising myself as well as taking care of my mother. My best friend, Samantha, was all I really had and she passed away 2 days after her 17th birthday, last September.

• by Amanda
• 10 years ago

I recently lost a friend this past Sunday in a horrific automobile accident. She was 18 years old and in college. I miss her so much.... She was hit by an ambulance while leaving her work place in Church Hill, Tennessee....:( I wish I could see her face and hear her voice one more time. Part of me wishes it was only a bad dream. RIP Samantha Hathaway. I love and miss you very much!! <3

• by Natasha Clems
• 11 years ago

I'm 13 years old too! This year, a someone I knew (my age!) died in an accident. It was so shocking, I don't know hardly anyone to be killed now. I guess it's just so unreal at our age, I feel your pain to lose someone with close connections to you. Idk what I would do if I lost my best friend... my heart goes out to you--I know what it's like! :(

• by Zoe
• 11 years ago

My friend died last week, 16, a heart attack, from NZ :-( I love him so much he was funny, smart, courageous, attractive and just everything a friend could be <3 I feel your pain!!! Xxxxxx