Saturday, September 11, 2010

wishing you had as much faith in yourself as we have in you

skyler & travis, bear lake, august 2010

i will never know what you are going through or what it feels like to need something so bad that you're willing to destroy your life and the lives of those that love you just to have it.  do you know how much we love you?  did you know that we all would have done anything for this not to happen again?  for you to fall.  for you to turn to something so ugly.  something that makes you someone you're not.  because you're not weak.  you're strong.  don't you know that?  why don't you know that?  why don't you learn?  why do you keep going backwards?  when life seems to be going your way, you turn around and leave those that care and love you more than you will ever know behind.  and for what?  absolutely nothing.  because that's what you have right now.  nothing.  i want you to be the brother i was just coming to know.  the one that made me laugh in the swimming pool.  that teases me for being his little sister.  makes up ridiculous songs to get me to do what he wants.  makes me pick him up from work at the busiest time of day and we're stuck in traffic, making up stories about everyone around us.  the one that went on a bike ride, remember it was just the two of us, talking and laughing the entire time.  i want that brother back.  i love you.  please come back.

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