Poem: No Time To Say Goodbye

No Time To Say Goodbye

By Joi Maree Flowers

And without warning it was over

And without saying goodbye she was of this world no more

Too young to fully live

Too young to prematurely die

The adolescent child taken away by the hands of infatuation

By an angered heart

And a jealous mind

Who felt that if he was without her

So should this world also be

Selfish bastard

Cold hearted sucka

Cruel murderer

To close the eyes of this beautiful soul to darkness forever

She

Given no chance to plead for her escape

Given no time to undo the decision to leave

That could have changed his mind

But how could she have known

Without being warned

And how could she have known

She would be caught off guard by a powerful blow

Her Mother and Father

So close to help

But too far away to know

As silence didn't alarm their ears to hear

The horror

The torture

The brutality

That battled their defeated daughter

A few blocks away from their front door

Until morning

When they arose to discover her absence

Then walked outside to see the yellow roped off street

Police cars

And ambulance

And made their way to the scene with troubled hearts

Only to discover the person covered with the white sheet

Was their child

A shot to her head and heart

Collapsed by shock and weakness

Defeated by death's resistance to revive her

As she had before then expired

As she had before then not known the coming of that nightmare

Their lives lost life

Their heart lost beats

Their words could only speak screams

And yell out cries of "why"

Wonders of "if only"

Angers of wanting to know "who did this"

Pleads for justice

Wishes for time reversal to change yesterday

But the nightmare was real

The end had happened

The last words of her saying "I love you" replayed in their ears

The last sight of her sent through their bodies frozen chills

They were forced to say goodbye

Without knowing she was leaving

They were forced to live life

Without the one whom they'd given life to