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