Words Changed

Strangely enough
words changed my life
it wasn't "i love you and i care"
nor "i hate you and don't care"
it was that one night
the one in the summer
i was depressed
i wanted to die
i tried to kill myself
911 was dialed
cops firefighters paramedics
all came knocking at my door
i was screaming
i was shouting
none of those people knew you
well you did
i yelled at you
broke loose but you held me down
i told everyone to leave
you don't know me
you don't know what I've done
i said just let me die
you talked back
you shut me up
you may not know it
but you changed my life
you made me think
"i know you
and i care what happens"
those words shut me up
they pissed me off
i ran my mouth off even more
i ran out of energy
all the time those words stuck in my heard
the next week those words stuck in my head
months later they are still there
still shutting me up
still making me think
but know this
they are helping me change
they got me help
i have only thanks for you
those simple words
people say them so often
yet they changed me so much
they gave me my second chance
i have no way to explain
but it did
i am still Alive
remember you said those words
to a drunk, high, crazed, depressed thirteen year old
now a clean sober stable young lady
all ti sat gas a great deal with that night
plus those words
however you meant them
they came across as a slap in the face
next time you say those words
think of one life they saved

***along time ago a police officer in my town told me the words in this poem and he helped me want to get better even if it wasn't what i took it as still i never got the chance to thank him but to this day i don't not think about it***