Leah was my best friend since 1st grade. We spent everyday together just talking and laughing. I loved her like a sister. She was such a fun and exciting person. She had a great personality and would do anything for anyone, at anytime. Leah was the most selfless, sincere person I knew.
As we entered our freshman year of high school, we were still as close as ever. On November 10, her parents, brother, sister, Leah and I went up to New Hamphsire to watch her brother play in a college hockey game. We had a great time laughing, so carefree, thinking that nothing could ever go wrong. And then it did. It was around 2:30 in the morning and we were all sleeping, Leah and I squished in the backseats of a station wagon. It was silent, until that moment. While we were going through a green light, a drunk driver doing seventy miles an hour in a 25mph zone, slammed right into our car when running the light. I was immediately thrown from the car, Leah died instantly. I was thrown abot 25 feet and only suffered cuts and bruises and a broken ankle. But what I could never understand is why I survived by not wearing my seatbelt and Leah was the smart one, who was wearing hers, and she died?
Not until hours later, after constant asking of "where is Leah?", they finally told me that Leah died. I went into a state of shock. How could some selfish person take away such a sweet girl? Fourteen years on the earth is all she got. How was I to survive without my best friend?
Four years later, I am now a college freshman, and still wishing that Leah could be here to experience this me. But I know that she is always with me no matter where I go. And she was right by my side when I did all things she didn't get to do. Getting my driver's liscense, graduating from high school, got to the prom. I did those thing with Leah, because they were her chance once too. I am living out Leah's college dream now, so I can let Leah live on in my heart.
I love and miss you everyday Leah. Your are still my best friend and someday we will be together again.
I'm Free
I'm following the path God has laid you see.
I took His hand when I heard Him call.
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day.
To laugh, to love, to work, to play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way.
I found that peace at the close of the day.
If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joys.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,
Oh yes, these things I too will miss.
Be not burdened with times of sorrow.
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life's been full, I savored much.
Good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief.
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your hearts and peace to thee.
God wanted me now; He set me free!
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