"Death for a Couple of Drinks"
By Kara Burrell
Just a few drinks
Will take my worries away
When night starts to sink
And morning becomes day
My head will pound
My stomach will hurt
I'll awake to see strange faces
I guess I was in the wrong places
Someone had died
I wish it would have been me
He would have been mine
If it wasn't for that damn tree
I saw it come
I saw it go
I heard him yell
I had to let go
His memory's with me
And will always be
It was time for him to go
And now it's for me
"I wrote this poem when I was a junior in high school for a class assignment. I have attempted others, but this one still gets me."
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"My Rainbow"
By Sheila Whitaker
It is one of those days when I am laying in bed
And memories of him dance through my head
A happy day was the day that we met
The night that he died, I'll never forget
No explanations, no second chances
No making it better, no tender glances
In a blink of my eye, everything changed
The future we planned, now rearranged
I am not the same person as I was that night
And every day without him, is an uphill fight
I still feel him beside me when I'm laying alone
Still wait in the evening for the ring of the phone
I know he's still with me lighting my way
The rainbow I see in a world of gray
"I wrote this shortly after my fiancé died of a brain aneurysm. I turned to writing at this time in my life to help me deal with difficult emotions."
