Not Another Obituary

I don't want to be another headline

my picture sitting pretty next to coupons.

Because I am so much more than a thin article.

So much more than a faded memory.

I don't want to be another body in the dirt

All simply because I have exhausted my limits

Because I let sadness creep up on me

and I stopped fighting back.

I don't want to be another victim

just because I sighed longer than I smiled

And because I dropped the ball

and refused to pick it back up

I don't want to be another teen

who Lived up to sixteen all because

I saw the now and never the later

or gave up on my family, friends, myself.