Smothered Teen Souls
. . . “The Leaden-Eyed” was written in an entirely different context but fully applies to two young American girls whose lives were literally “smothered out” before they had a chance to reap the joys of life. Their souls were starved by their insensitive worlds, their dreams and gods did not save them.
They didn’t die like sheep, either. They died agonizing deaths by hanging themselves by the neck in their homes, the only places they could find succor and safety from the mean world and vicious people in their schools but places that couldn’t give them relief from their pain.
It’s simplistic to say that 15 year old Phoebe Prince and 17 year old Alexis Pilkington committed suicide. Both girls were the murdered victims of modern life, both suffered far more slings and arrows than they could withstand, both succumbed to sadness beyond redemption or salvation. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1600)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment