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Accidents, homicide and suicides are the leading causes of death among 15-24 year olds in the United States with the incidence of violent death a major concern in countries around the world. In an increasingly dangerous and uncertain society our children will likely encounter violent death before reaching adulthood, many during their impressionable and vulnerable adolescent years.

Alison Salloum, LCSW
Project LAST, New Orleans, LA

I Never Got to Say Goodbye


Bathrobe is still hanging on the door
Dirty socks still lying on the floor
Hairbrush sits beneath the mirror’s frame
Strange to think the fingerprints remain

In an instant, life is not the same
The smile, the voice we never can reclaim
So unfair, so much more life to live
So hard to go on, much less forgive

I never got to say good-bye
Despite how many tears I cry
All I want to know is why
I never got to say good-bye

If there’s a God in Heaven, please let them know
I never dreamed they’d have to go
Sometimes it’s more that I can bear
To stay here when they’re up there

Please tell them that I love them so
And it’s so hard to let them go
I still wish as days go by
I’d had the chance to say good-bye

I never got to say good-bye
Despite how many tears I cry
All I want to know is why
I never got to say good-bye


Written for the VACC’s Homicide Support Project
By Kyla Black 9/1/99

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