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Missing In Action


I wonder what sound escaped his mouth as he watched his life flash before his eyes.

life.

His  life which never yet begun,

His life , No more.

Clear as day I too can remember his persona,

his joy.

But now as you can guess my thoughts are conflicted.

Why have so much ahead only to take a leap to the end ?

I feel numb,

On this rainy day thinking about all the times I wished my life away,

Then to chicken out because I couldn't even stand the thought of the pain; that would scream out of my body once it touched pavement .

Pavements in my mind ,

His lifeless eyes like a steel shot  The clicks of the camera like the beats of my chest they stop for a moment of silence .

In honor of our fallen brother .

Fallen,

Fallen to.desperation and.deception

Fallen,

Fallen to academics and social life

Fallen,

Fallen  to the you can'ts and you wont's of this corrupt place we call home .

Fallen to generation tech.

Whose more focused on the gram then they are  the world .

We need to snap back and face the reality that is now.

Rather than the wide web that in the end leads to a Deep sea of emptiness,

But  vine don't  talk about that dose it ?

He was a victim of stress and all he had to do was hold on and  let God work!

But how could he when the man who sent his son to save can't even be called  by his name in the classrooms,

the places where our children learn the building blocks of life

but then look around in confusion years later as the pedestal they have built for themselves withers away like the nothingness filled inside .

This was one step.

 Some say accident

But if we would  have infused all of the attention We focus on shutting people out by making them feel in

how many accidents could we have prevented  ?



 

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