Don’t Let it Break You

C.C.O image from Pixabay

“Life isn’t always

Easy.” she said

As she sat on the

Floor cleaning

Up spilled Cheerios.

“But you can’t let it

Break you.”

I nodded, I knew

Of pain

Four years before

On a rainy February

Morning

As I opened a paper

To read Father and

Son brutally murdered

In their Hercules Home.

Hercules was a small

Upper middle class town

In the Bay Area

But this wasn’t some

Far off family

They were life

Long friends

And I still cant wrap

My head around

Who would assassinate

A father and his

Twelve year old

Home.

“It’s hard.”

She admitted

“The struggles we face