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Reflecting on a saying. Reflecting on a semicolon.

*A semicolon is used when a sentence could have ended but then was continued.

Take a minute and realize,

this is symbolizing millions of lives out there that have survived near death by suicide attempts.*

 

You were my semicolon.

 

I remember that night clearly;

alomost as if it was yesterday.

I was sitting alone in my room,

a gun in my hand.

All of the pain was too much for me to stand.

Music was blasting.

Tears streaming down my face.

A simple note on my pillow.

 

*Mom and dad please, do not be sad.

This was not your fault.

I love you, I just can't take the pain.

Please be strong.

Tell my neices I love them.

It'll be better of this way.

-Your daughter,

Bryana*

 

Suddenly my phone goes off,

a number on the screne that I have not seen before.

I decide to read it, thinking,

It's probably just another peorson telling me how useless I am

It would be nothing new to me.

 

I read the words you say,

to my surprise...

Someone actually cares.

"Hey,

I have noticed you have been sad lately.

I want to know whats up."

 

*Wow, someone actually knows I exist.

Someone actually cares.

And better yet, it's the one I've been looking up to all season.*

 

Slowly I set the gun down

 

God knows how long we talked that night.

I opened up to you,

though, I barely knew you at the time.

That night, I never told you I was holding a gun in my hand.

But since that night,

I have never picked it up again.

Why?

Because I have had you by my side.

My semicolon in this crazy story I call life.

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