I wrote this poem about watching someone you love battle with addiction. It's extremely hard to fight something like addiction, but it is also very difficult for the family and friends. I wanted to wr...

I wrote this poem after my friend was murdered. There are so many shootings every single day, and every single one is a tragedy, NOT "that's life"

This is a very hard and touchy subject. I wrote on school shootings as they are so promininte in our world today. Something has to change. The conversation can't just come after a tradgety. Children a...

I wrote this poem after a friend saved my life in a parking garage. This poem means a lot to me, and even more so now that the friend is no longer alive. I enter this into a state contest and won 1st ...

"Goodbye." I have discovered a whole new perspective of the word goodbye, after my best friend died by suicide

These hallways are filled with grief, love, and sadness. I walk down the aisle slow, steady, with locked eyes. (I wrote this after my best friends funeral. She committed suicide. Please don't overloo...

Do you want to know the line that saved my life? I was 10 and wanted to give up.

I ran to her and told her my secret, the one, I thought I'd never share. "Tonight I feel like ending it all..."

A 17 year old student lectures her peers at school about a students' recent suicide.

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Black is the opposite of light, It's fear lurking in the night.

She smiles to hide the pain. The thoughts of loneliness take her away.

This poem/short story will give the reader an insight on life and it's dark secrets.