Bouleversant
Talking About Teen Suicide
written by: Gerry Stefanson
life lessons learned
in a church we never attended
life lessons learned
in a school we never studied in
life lessons learned
in a world we never knew of
a glance behind reflects faces
of the new educators we came to know
many new to us (never to be forgotten)
old friends to us (there to support when we faltered)
new friends to us (who saw our path).
family that surrounded us and were there for us
we the three (mother, daughter and father)
had many roads to travel
the trip is yesterday/today/and tomorrows
it was a day ago, now closing in on thirty years
it is a part of our lives, a rather large part, but a part
it is our story and we all tell it a little different
as we are all a little different in the effects
yet it has been a tie that binds
raise a glass to the future
a sip to the past.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
When what was never imagined happens. It can’t, you can’t turn it back. You can move forward and not realize what forward is.
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