a letter to a friend gone too soon

you were taken too soon. you've probably heard it a million times by now. "muslim teen assaulted and killed". but i think you're more then that. you brought life to a school that's somber without you. i did not hear a single person laugh in the lockers this morning. it was unspeakably quiet, only broken by heartwrenching sobs. i see your friends pass in the hallway, mascara trails down their cheeks. i heard the speech our principal gave after school, a class coming together, building a memorial around your locker. it seems so wrong that next year, someone news going to have it and it will all be gone. it feels so wrong to keep going without you here. how am i supposed to sit here and study when you're dead. you're not here anymore. and we're just supposed to keep going. move on with our lives? how? how could we ever do that? but i am not allowed to be this sad for a girl i didn't know. i didn't share stories with you in the halls. i didn't fall in love with you at two am. i saw you in the halls, but we never talked. so am i allowed to be this heartbroken over you? because i am. i hope you're happy where you are now babe. rest in peace.