• Death.
    It was always a thought which sat on my mind. But that one day, the day I died, Death really bore a hole into my head.
    “Jump! A few seconds! Thats all it'll take. You'll love the freedom which I shall give you. Jump!”
    That voice wouldn't leave my head. It stayed there all day. Hours of calling me to the window which I did jump from. Calling me to do myself in. Deaths voice was sweet. It's seductive tone drawing me closer and closer. He promised me everything I couldn't have while being alive. The price, my life. 'What should I do?' I thought. 'Give away seventeen years on pain for a eternity of all the things I've wished for?' It was a bargain to die for.
    He called for me. Even now I can still hear his voice, that voice which convinced me to take my life. I never realized until after I died how much life could give you. The light of the sun. The peace of sleep. The touch of wind on my back during the hot summer days. For twenty years I have yearned to feel. To see. For twenty years I have wasted away. Seeing nothing but hues of gray.
    I did learn how Death will lie. He lied to me. He's lied to others surly. All the promises, all the freedoms, they never came true. For twenty years since I took my life I have wandered the halls of the place I called home. It's purgatory I guess. I'm not able to leave either. If I try to walk through the door, I just end up back in the same room I jumped from, causing me to re-live the pain, to watch my fall. It's a horrible thing to see. Yourself falling from a ten story building, and that not even being the end. If I tried to leave, it would happen all over again. The fall and the rush to the hospital, even the funeral. Could you Imagen seeing all your family and friends crowd around the box containing your broken body?
    All He had to do was promise wealth. Wealth to a child who already wanted out of life, but oh how I want back in now. Now is to late though. For inside the confines of my old apartment, I can hear Deaths voice coaxing yet another life into he eternal Hell.
    “Jump and you'll never be sad again.”