just wanted to fade away. so i caught a bus and went down to the train tracks that were still being used by the freight trains that were shipping things all throughout the state. i laid on the cold steel tracks and just waited for the next train to come and hit me. it was then, almost out of nowhere, that i started thinking of rise together and their message of hope.
i also started to think about how destroyed my little 8 year brother would be if he got that call saying that i killed myself. i could hear his voice, saying “please get up, you can do it, fight 