The Shine of the Rainbow

She falls to her knees with tears streaming down her face. She has a pain in her chest that nobody could ever describe. The true pain is heartbreak. She starts to write a letter, but her hand trembles and she drops her pen. All she was able to write was, "I'm moving onto a new place, where there's more people like me, the sinners and the ones who disgrace." Her thoughts are racing, bouncing up and down in her mind, she thinks to herself, "Why is this happening to me?" Then the voices inside her head are silent, and she lays there finally in peace with herself.

Looking down from heaven you can finally see the whole picture, see how much people care about you, see how many people are down there thinking about you every night. She sees her mom writing a poem for her, making the ink fade away with her tears. Watching her mascara running down her face, listening to hear her silent cries. Her mom can't control her emotions, and nobody is there to grieve with her. Her husband, off at war, with no clue about what has just happened. She locks herself in her room, covers the windows, and disappears from the outside world.

Heaven is a peaceful place, everyone thinks that it is a perfect paradise, but that's not true. It's a perfect place physically, but you're still left with the emotions that you had. She's able to look down to see what's happening, hoping to give her mom a sign that even though she is gone, that she is okay. Her mom couldn't say a goodbye to her, her life was cut too short. How did she get so lonely, without anyone knowing? What could've pushed her over the edge into such a dark place.

Her funeral was set for today, everybody from town came. As she looks down, she starts to cry, her tears turning into the rain on the earth. She's stuck on the idea of if everybody finally noticed her because she's gone, or if they actually care about her. Her dad couldn't come back in time for the funeral, but just this morning, he got the letter in the mail saying what has happened. Her dad, her best friend, her idol, broke down in front of his whole platoon. He couldn't even explain what was going on. It's like her mom could feel the pain he was feeling and it struck her in the heart and she broke down at the funeral.

When everyone got to the cemetery, her mom set the poem and a single rose on her casket before it was laid beneath the earth. The poem said:

The sunshine came out for you today,

I hope you saw that I'm okay.

Your smile embedded into my mind,

Because it was so bright it shined.

The rest of the poem was blurred by her mom's tears. Her mom feels a slight touch on her shoulder and turns around, but nobody is there. She was finally able to give her mom a hint that she was okay and then slowly the rain let up, and the rainbow started to shine.

I'm sorry that this is more like a story than a poem, but I really liked how I wrote this so feel free to rate and comment <3 love y'all