You had so much to give and so much going for you,

but a missed flight tipped you over the edge.

You didn’t want to let people down,

your mind fraught with guilt.

You took to the woods, and left this temporal plane.

 

We see a smile and a happy face,

but this is just the thin veneer

we choose to look upon

not the complicated self that lives within.

It is more difficult  to learn to know each other,

more difficult to learn the

intricacies of our inner selves.

We hide this real us so well

that even our nearest are unsure of who we are.

 

I cry tears for Ellie and all who suffer invisibly.