Honey, I know this is extremely painful to you to have written this, since it shows to the core of anyone with a soul that you deeply loved your friend, and even after death he still is in your mind and prayers.

You mentioned God and I believe he is there waiting patiently for you to come meet him in time honey, you don't have to rush to meet him again, like you I have people in heaven that I know are waiting for me to come to heaven or hell whichever is deemed of my soul is yet to be determined.

Sweetie you break my heart reading this because I can relate to a friend taking their lives before their time was supposed to be gone. I know it burns and it doesn't go away that pain but it will get better with time but it will get better.

Beautiful to the end even which it was sad to the end

- Moria Bella Bair

Three weeks now. It doesn't get any easier. No, that's the wrong word. It's not getting less difficult. Not yet anyway. I hate this world so much sometimes...

Judging comment:

Kakera paints such vivid loss and mourning in this piece all the while managing to create something elegant and pretty from something so tragic and heartbreaking. I always enjoy the use of the serpent in poems and this was no exception here. Sometimes life hands us such a raw deal and it feels like there is nothing but pain.

The mention of there being no hope left and suffocating in silence enforces that sometimes we're given more pain to deal with than we can bare. "that I could spread magic in the heart of everything mundane, and reach past the stars to where the angels sing" Easily my favourite lines of the poem; as it generates such delicate and bittersweet imagery in so few words.

I lost someone very close to me last year and whilst I can't say the pain stops, I can tell you that it does begin to get easier with time. Remember your friend and stay strong.