Rise Above The Influence Poem by Matthew Campbell

I had a girlfriend that drank every other day. She was a very good athlete that was getting a full ride scholarship to the University of Oregon for Cross Country. She said she loved me and would do anything for me if I asked. So I asked her to stop drinking one night. She said okay but after a week she went out drinking.. She said it was peer pressure that made her do it. I broke up with her. A year later she was sitting in the emergency room after she had been in a car crash due to intoxication of alcohol. She was paralyzed from the waste down. Which ended her career of being a runner.5 years later after the accident she killed herself.