yvette
you've traveled a dream,
slipped and fell
never to return
you wanted to be someplace else -
someplace that glittered more
than your mind,
anywhere but here.
you've left everything behind
and you've left nothing,
you've left anger and hope,
you've left us a lesson-
we have yesterday to correct
our mistakes, and today,
we wish we had.
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you weep for those you've lost,
and for those who have lost you, and
you seek to find them through tears
and blades and a tangled web of
narcotics.
you wonder how you've become lost.
Carly Findlay,
December 1999 / January 2000