I was ready to put my heart on a shelf
I needed to be rescued from myself

You came from, I know not where
I needed a friend and you were there

You made me laugh and made me cry
I didn't even wonder why

Becoming much closer than sister and brother
We shared everything with each other

A common bond no one else shared
Confiding in you, my feelings I barred

Looking inside my tortured soul
You went ahead and filled the hole

A treasured jewel you became to me
You mended my heart and set me free

Your kisses, sweet and tender
This is what I will always remember

With stolen kisses we said good-bye
This friendship will last till the day I die
 
 

© Susie Bixler

When is it time to say, enough!
Do we decide to stop living?
God gave us choices to make
But is this a choice we make, 
Or something we just let happen?

When is the pain too great to bear?
When is life, as we know it,
No longer worth fighting for?
When the solemness of death seems so appealing
Why not embrace its depths and just let go?

When we are no longer in this world of pain and humiliation
Will the ones who remember us think we were selfish?
Leaving them with the questions of weather they 
Did all they could do to make our journey 
Through life any better?

Or will they also think we are much better
For leaving them before we were too far gone
To say, enough is enough.

God is love, and in the death of Jesus we see love for us,
A sacrifice for our lives, so that we might live.
In His death we see His love, 
But will our loved ones?
Will our love be seen in our deaths?

Will our lives and deaths be seen as bitter betrayals?
When do we say, and is it our right to say....
Enough!

© Susie Bixler