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EXCERPT FROM "FIRST TO THE LAST BREATH" Lisa Willhite

No one slept that night, yet everyone awoke in the morning. It was a rude awakening. Whenever

the coldness of a cloudy night makes way, after hours upon hours of darkness, for the bright

warming sunshine of a new day, you would expect the warmth to envelope you. To take you in

it's arms and caress your thoughts, providing you with that feeling of jubilation that gives us all

the spirit to continue on, yet in times like these your bones stay chilled. It is as if the sunshine is

nothing more than a picture, painted with no depth, no substance to mention. It almost seems, at

times, as though it taunts you, "sure, believe that it's a beautiful world, I won't let you down," It

says, "I am always here". The birds sing harmony, but it sounds like noise. Whenever the

squirrels chatter, it makes you feel as though you never noticed the extent of their audacity

before. Yes upon awakening, that momentary lapse in memory function that allows us all a

seconds worth of fantasy, a second of thought, that comforts us with lies, that have at some

point led us to believe it was all a bad dream, disappears into the ugly world of un-mistaken

reality. It is at this time that we curse the world and all of it's inhabitants, we curse it because we

expect it to stop spinning, we expect time to stand still, for our worlds have definitely stopped

to recognize the loss of one of it's spirits. How dare the world continue on in this time of such

great sorrow.11:17 am pdt

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I understand what the poem means, at two points in my life I could truly relate to this, because I had lost a friend and several years later I lost my grandmother, and I found myself feeling that way which caught me by surprise. I felt an overwhelming sense of selfishness as if life was just supposed to stop and be in mourning over such a great loss, and when the sun still came out on those sorrow-filled days I kinda felt like I was being betrayed. As if to say yeah, they're gone but life goes on anyhow. I hated to hear people carry on normal conversation...just like one commenter said it was irritating just to hear.But time does heal all wounds, I'm a believer that -that is not just a saying.

  • 1 decade ago

    I can relate.

    I have felt this way before after losing someone (my niece) I loved so much. I felt like life was going on when I wanted it to stop, I needed it to stop, even for just a few minutes while I grieved. music, pretty days, birds singing, and things that were around me that I had always enjoyed became annoyances. I still look at her picture and it's almost like it serves as a reminder of her not being here anymore.

    you have put into words a feeling that I had no words for.

    thanks!

    I lost my 21 year old niece this past March, and it's been very hard learning to live again.. I don't think "normal" ever comes back

    again, but I do know that God is still there and you will be in my prayers too. God Bless you

  • 1 decade ago

    Whoever wrote this is in one of the deepest depressions I've ever seen expressed in words!

  • 1 decade ago

    a thought from either a depressed, pessimist, emo, goth, suicidal, bored with this world.......one of those.........

    not bad, coz these lines to me can bring the feel of gloominess out of people....so it works

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  • 1 decade ago

    It makes me feel that I just wasted several minutes reading a long poem.

  • beast
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Sounds like goth poetry to me.

  • 1 decade ago

    Too long, lost concentration

  • 1 decade ago

    Too much to read here

  • 1 decade ago

    ho hum what a bore

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