Letters to No one By: Marvée

Students went silent every time I passed by them at the hallway, gazing intently at me with their eyes filled with pity, some even with scorn.

There was no other reason for that reaction except for the fact that I was a cancer patient, skinny with my long neck like a rope's and my bones as boundless as the sea.

Not only because I have no friends left, not only because I hate walking into the hospital just to hear the same thing from the doctor, not just because I had to wear a stupid wig to cover up the well known fact that i'm going bald, but I hate my life because it hurts to know that someone who didn't deserve died in the course of protecting me. To me, life ain't worth living so I decided to take the next step. The biggest decision I made throughout my entire life, without the help of my parents,was to put an end to it.

I would also be putting an end to my family's problems, we were not even financially stable but I made them a lot of hospital bills..they didn't need me around anymore.

At the close of school, I kept going up the stairs until I got to the roof top, pure joy! I counted my steps slowly along with my heart beat and when I got to the rails I placed my left leg first then my right hanging in the air. I jumped.

My name is Anna

Marvée©
Poet.ess

Artwork titled; A path way through an alley by; John Madu

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