He Blew It Out

Please be mindful of the words you speak, the one’s you type, what you say because words really can be weapons, and they can destroy…

He Blew it Out

Like candles in the

Wind.

He made it disappear

Never to be seen again.

Careless words

Thrown out

Not a thought

For the damage they

Did.

He Blew it Out

That which was him

Every hateful word

Spewn out

Pierced him.

Sorrow in his eyes

I wish I had seen then.

He was a casual acquaintance

A friend of a friend

A talented artist

I wonder where that

Would lead him.

I never spoke

A hateful word to him

Neither did my friend

But the damage of a few

Destroyed him.

Summer of “99”

I Learned of the pain

He had been in

When my friend reached

Out

Told me of what

Had happened.

We were little more

Than kids then

And the reality hit

Like a ton of bricks.

©Michelle R Kidwell,2017 with slight revisions 2021