The Note

Play this music as you read:  http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/151445 (right click to open in a new tab/window) 

Video - Work in Progress:  http://www.fastswf.com/5aGfKUw

 

 

The Note

 

I’ll make them sorry
there's nothing more to say

 

Pen and paper
hands trembling

 

Pain beyond belief
sorrow beyond words

An emptiness...

.... I can no longer live with…

 

 

 

Day to day
guttural despair

 

I seem to all
a faded memory

 

A ghost to many
loved by only a few

 

And it’s like I just want them to realize

need for them to feel
the loss of me

 

 

In my mind
it’s so very simple

 

In a moment being
the next not

 

But this decision
is so hasty

 

born of a deep sadness
something my soul just cannot shake

 

 

Please see my pain
stop my tears

 

Hold me close
say no words

 

Just keep my hand
from completing
this note

 

Debbie Lyn Jones - 2010

Note: I wrote this sitting in my car - no edits.  At the top of this page is a video animation I created (work in progress). I also illustrated the background.

Read below to see why I created this (in the comments).

Author's Note

I wrote this when there were an epidemic of young people taking their own lives. I wrote this when I was sitting in my car one day, waiting for my daughters to finish shopping. No edits.

Later I illustrated a background and started on this video, which is not yet completed. I found music that almost is the correct length - not quite. The musician was kind enough to let me use it:


Work in progress w/ my illustration: http://www.fastswf.com/5aGfKUw

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[Debbie Lyn Jones]

Please also see: The Note http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/AllMyTears/1057940/

and: My Child http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/AllMyTears/1057941/