Literature
Clinging To Pictures
I'll never understand the side
of you that let the bittersweet taste of death guide
you into thinking there was nobody to confide
to, how you let those you love feel the pain
in their hearts as they stood mourning your casket in the rain
after a spontaneous act of selfishness, after that bottle was drained
of its contents. How you could leave your boys to hold
one another in that room without a dad to watch them grow old,
a sister with no baby brother, and a mother that you had told
you would start again, start anew, turn your life around.
What began as a bright new truth fizzled into a battleground
for your demons to breed. You never though