the day she died a young woman's end

 A young woman’s end

The screech of tires of filled the air as the came up the street

Her friends yelling something’s wrong….her “friends” who she spent

All night doing drugs with and now there was something wrong with her

I ran to her house walked in the door

It is a sight that will forever be burned in my brain

There she was lying on the floor blue….

With saliva bubbling out of her mouth her two babies one 2-1/2 the other only a year

In nothing but sagging dirty diapers crawling on their dying mother

For a moment the world stood still she so young in her twenties

And her lifeless body was there so still

Our kids were about the same age I couldn’t believe what I was seeing

I grabbed her babies brought them to my house changed and dressed them

At my house were my own children a 9, 7, 5, and 3 yrs. old

My daughter helped me make them something to eat

While next door my husband and her “friends” were on the phone with 911 operators

Those babies are losing their mother I kept thinking as they ate

This wasn’t the first time she partied all night this was a frequent occurrence

But now three kids were going to motherless because of it-she also had an 11 yr. old

I was thankful he wasn’t home at the time he would never get over seeing his mother laying there lifeless and blue I know I’ll never forget it

Her 2 yr. old was crying mama mama my heart broke for him…

I got some toys together and my kids started playing with her kids this helped calm them down

I shut the curtains when the ambulance pulled up

None of the kids needed to see her being taken out of the house

When they wheeled her out of the house my kids peeked out the curtain

This was a woman who was always sweet to them our kids played together

And now she was leaving this world

Soon after her family picked up her kids

This day sticks with me I sat my kids down and we talked about drug use and what it can lead to

Shortly after she got the hosp she died

She had a long history of drug use her heart was damaged

She didn’t want to be on drugs we talked once about how she wanted to go back to school

She had dreams that would now never be found

All because of a needle in her arm….

I hope she is a peace now