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Sentinel News - Page A6 Obituaries
Taryn Markle
Died — February 15, 2021
Her thoughts wrapped themselves around her
And suffocated fragile lungs
She leaves behind a family that
Never understood
And
A dog who
Will never understand
And
A boy who
Will never know that
He killed her long before
Taryn Markle
Died — November 22, 2020
Face shoved into floral bedsheets
That smell like wood glue in
The camper she grew up going to
Kids camp with friends
She suffocated on an innocence that
She didn’t even know she still had
That choked her as it
Writhed as it came up her throat
In whimpers that she tried so hard to suppress
Against bedsheets that used to be childhood
In room that she can no longer enter
With boy who she trusted
Taryn Markle
Died — February 15, 2021
She
Was so exhausted from being awake
She
Covered herself in scars
She
Screamed but no one ever listened
She
Didn’t eat and no one ever noticed
She
Couldn’t handle it anymore
And they
Wonder why she did what she did
They
Ask themselves what they could’ve done better
She
Told them what they could have done better
She
Told them what they could have done better
She
Told them
She
Told them
She
Was never listened to
And she
Died — Every day since
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This poem is very close to me as I did have to be hospitalized on February 15, this poem is a sort of "what could have happened" situation. I wrote it for a school assignment and have never been so happy with anything I've written, it just portrayed my voice so well.