By Katie (tiamat_4@hotmail.com)
Date: 22 April 1998

Inner Battle

What's so wrong with letting go
of the things that test your integrity?
You should have vented the frustration,
learning to smile.
A true smile,
one not bound by stress.
Twenty years later,
I will still remember how you beat yourself up with the worry.
I do miss you,
but I wish you had not let the stress harm you.
Then I would not be missing you.
Appreciate yourself.
I tried, but you wouldn't let me.