Take Me Instead Poem by Patrick Shields

My Black Hair Covers My Brown Eyes
Tears Roll Down My Cheek
Why Did You Of All People Have To Die
It Seems Like You Where Still Here Last Week

Please Exchange Her Life For Mine
She Deserves To Be Alive
Instead Drink My Sweet Crimson Wine
Please She Is Better Than I

Let Me Burn Eternally Instead
It's Only What I Deserve Nothing Less
I'm Much Better Off Dead
Don't Mind Me If I Look Depressed

Just Bring Her Back I Plead To The Sky
Your They Only One That Kept Me Sane
Of All People You Didn't Deserve To Die
As I Look To The Heavens and Call Out Your Name

Yet I Can Still Hear Your Voice So Clear
Like Your Standing Right Beside Me
I'm Going Insanse My Greatest Fear
But You I Still Can't See

I Drive Back To My Now Empty Apartment
I Don't Know What I Should Even Now Do
Looking For The Pills In My Glove Compartment
I Wash Them Down With Alcohol So I Can Again See You