Death tortured me for so long, everywhere i went i lost someone to death. It started with my mother and father, i was three when i walked into my perant room, after hearing two stange bangs and found them dead with a bullet hole in each of their heads. It then moved on to my best friend, a drunken driver crashed into her, dead instantaneously. Then my grandmother disease took over her body, and the list continues. Each one of them special to me, each one of them i feel responsible for. But today is the day i learn to let go, but not forget. tonight when fire illuminates the sky, like orange burning stars, i will be free from the guilt of the deaths that consumed the people around me. Tonight i will be part of something magnificent, something so beautiful that people gather from every part of the world to witness the floating lights. This morning i wrote a list of the names of all the loved ones that death has stolen from me and tonight i will place that list in the lights as they float away into the heavens above, to never be seen until we light the way once again. We all meet when the sky turns black and there are no lights insight. i place my list with a letter saying: " All i wanted to say was goodbye. I just wish i got to tell you in person." We all ready our lighters and set flame to our lanterns as they float off into the distance creating the most beautiful image. i watch as my guilt flies away in a spectacular burning pathway in the sky.
