Death of a Seventeen Year Old

I wrote this because the death of a young girl many love and my kids knew from school was very sad. her mother read a poem to all the mothers at the funeral to talk to their children. Though i did not know her or her family i felt their pain and felt compelled to write this because this can happen to any of us.

Though she was not my daughter I felt for her and her family as if she was. She was very popular, a A-B student, Working at the piggly wiggly here in town. she was a member of the civitan club and President of some student organization at her school. she was the kind of person that always looking to help somebody. this is what she was doing texting a young man sharing his joy in changing his life for the good when she ran the stop sign and a police officer hit her car killing her. she was a very responsible young girl her mother said at the funeral. her curfew was 12 o'clock she would be home at 11:59 1/2. a mistake took her from them.