A sad story that might make you think the consequences of your actions. |
"And they lived happily ever after," he finished his story It was that familiar fairy tale, forever reveling in glory Half an hour, time that he spent every night Reading to his daughter before he turned off the lights As he tucked her in he said I'll see you tomorrow He smiled at her with his mouth but in his eyes, only sorrow He was a single father who's wife had died In a random act of violence, a homicide He'd just lost his job and could not find another He was 45 years old, about to move back in with his mother And nothing he did held any meaning anymore Except the little girl in the bed who he did so adore But was that enough to keep him going? Just to watch his daughter growing? Every night just like tonight he tucked her into bed But during every other part of every day he felt only dread But this night would be different than any before Because he had gone to the gun and ammo store He left the room and he closed the door He just couldn't bear the pain anymore And around two in the morning a single gunshot was heard The little girl woke up but she thought how absurd No gun was fired I must have been dreaming And bad dreams in real life hold no true meaning So she went back to sleep all warm under her covers Dreaming happy dreams of times with her mother Her alarm went off at a quarter to eight But she decided that she would rather wait Her dad always came in if she didn't come down "Get out of bed," he would say with a frown But he still didn't show up after half of an hour She thought maybe he's just taking a really long shower She got out of bed and went to see What his reason for such a delay could possibly be She went in to check his bed And what she found was her father dead The sheets were all dyed a deep crimson red And her father had a bullet hole in his head She was scared she thought the killer might still be in the house She picked up the phone and spoke quiet as a mouse She called the police and said "My dad has been shot" How and when it had happened she explained, she knew not The doors were still locked and the windows still closed Oddly, he was in his best clothes She looked at the form of the now deceased man And then she looked down at what he held in his hand He was holding the gun that had ended his life The same type of weapon that had killed his wife They were together again now in a better place But now a look of horror was on the girl's face She was alone in the world with nobody left to care And suddenly the only feeling she felt was despair She walked over and checked for more bullets in the gun She was annoyed when she found there had been only one She walked to the kitchen and pulled out a knife Her only intention now was to take her own life She took five minutes to write a brief note Then with nobody to stop her she cut her own throat When the police arrived just a short while later She was already gone and there was no way to save her One of them read out loud what she had put down in ink And what she wrote down made everyone think It said "My father was everything in this world that I had, I'm sorry, forgive me I love you, dad" And that was all that was on her mind Her motivation was gone he had left her behind And what started as a sentence has become an epic I hope the message spreads like an epidemic He took not just one life with his gun, but he took two Because no daughter should have to do what she had to do |