IT
Despite the loveliness of the day and the sweet chill of the evening,
This morning’s event does not seem to escape
The clasps of my mind’s sorrows
When 9AM struck a boy jumped off to meet a grievous end.
I never knew him, nor of his existence, but IT dawned on me
For the second time this semester and the fourth in less than three years
IT came back to eat out of my soul
The chill that swept through my back was unkind,
As it pricked every nerve within the spine
IT took me aback to my mourning.
IT cringed my stomach as unknown tears flooded my eyes.
IT stabbed me again.
IT mocked me as I grabbed a hold of reality in my left hand
My life on the right
Death slashed another morsel off of me.



