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Poem

I'm crying for all the lost lives and lost loves
All the things that could have been, but never were
The crushed hopes, missed oppourtunities
All the things that could be, but never will
For all the lost lives and lost loves
Missed oppourtunities, Dreams forgotton
Hearts opened, then crushed
Hands held out, then slapped away
Hopes, and lives ended needlessly
The young, the innocent, the unready
Unknowing, unsuspecting
Changing lives forever
Maybe on a dark night, in a car
Crashing, breaking, flying glass
Hopes dashed, lives ended before they began
A cousin, an uncle, a grandfather,
All taken too soon.
Death is not a kind master
Life ending, in a car alone
Or in a hospital bed
It's still the same, still the end
They were loved, and will be sorely missed,
Never forgotten.
Memories cherished, for the time they were here
Holding onto the hopes
The fragments of memories
The sights, the smells, that bring them back
Then having to live on without them.
Here for too short a time
I feel I barely got to know them before they were taken away
At 16 or 60, still too short a time.

Being young doesn't make it easier
Doesn't mean you don't understand
Don't feel the pain
What people don't understand, is
Children do understand
And when they're denied the grieving process
It's harder to bear.

Death takes too many
Touches to many lives
Too many times
But for all the pain and grief it brings
I would not change my life
To not know them, to not care
No one likes pain or grief
But we must bear them because they are a part of life.
No matter how briefly someone touches your life
It's worth it
And cliche as it may be,
I'm lucky to have known so many people who were so hard to say good-bye to