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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at MSU chapter.

 

always smiling

        laughing

forever a twinkle in her eyes

                sparkling

But could it all just be a lie?

 

The most joyous

super sweet

The most charismatic

super loved

 

no. she’s fine!

It can’t all be fake.

 

But it is.

she’s actually

dead.

Took her own life because

she couldn’t take it anymore

And became a statistic:

1 person every 40 seconds.

 

The smile on her lips:

gone.

That twinkle in her eyes:

gone.

Her entire existence:

gone.

 

Almost like she never existed.

A beautiful figment of our imagination,

a mere dream.

Until it all came to life

and became too hard to ignore,

Morphing into the nightmare

that we call reality.

 

a reality in which she is 

            g o n e.

Shravya is studying Human Biology at Lyman Briggs College and minoring in Cognitive Science at Michigan State University. You can find her learning new choreographies and spending time with friends in her free time.
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