Elucidating Questions

Obituaries are terrifying

All you were boiled down to a few words on a page

Like the end of a book it skims over all that came before

Some plot points were left out

And I am left to think

Is that all you were?

Gone now away and these words

This collection of sentiments

Is all that remains of you

Melissa

I have no where to put my anger

My feelings of abandonment again

Gone without a trace

All that was left was your high as fuck loser boyfriend

This isn’t right

I’ve been telling myself

This can’t be right

This can’t be your story

You never got to stand up on your own two feet and fight

You never got to see your daughters grow and learn and change

But there it is

Some thousand characters long

Left in the trails of wept tears,

Lost on the internet much like these words will be

How could you leave me to carry this memory of you?

Loved by all who knew her

But never really knew it

Blitzed herself into oblivion

And now you’re a statistic

Of toxic drug deaths

And now we carry this flag of loss

Death could only take you

Because you asked him to