Today I sat and tried my best to think.
If it could end your life why would you drink?
I wish I knew how to change your mind.
Life is too precious to leave it all behind.
How can you just turn around and walk away.
When we need a dad here for us today.
Is that what you want the easy way out?
To leave this world without any doubt.
So stop a minute and take a deep breath.
Drinking like this could lead to your death.
Think of everything you have before you choose.
If you don't stop drinking that is what you will lose.
After all these years there is one thing I now know.
If I love you this much it time to let go.
There I am standing looking in the mirror, tears rolling down my face, thinking, 'Why is it that this world is all going wrong? Is it the human race?, Is this world meant for people to...
Time To Let Go
Published by Family Friend Poems February 2006 with permission of the Author.
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