Left Behind
Sitting so tall and high, it almost feels like I can touch the sky.
I feel so safe and sound; my feet don’t even touch the ground.
You carry the world on your shoulders, yet you are so young.
When you get older, you will come undone.
Violence and drugs, they corrupt you.
You are no longer care free. I see the change in you.
Once so young, now so old, can’t you see how much I miss you?
You have become invisible, a distant memory.
Every night I go to bed, I close my eyes and I remember.
A time that was not so far, where you were my hero, a star.
I lay my head upon my pillow, and I remember that wonderful summer.
You and me and a Rally’s Burger, me on top of your shoulders.
Looking up at the sky and wishing it would never end.
I fall. The sky and stars are now so far.
I watch your back as you fade into the darkness.
I shout your name but my screams never reach your ears.
Slowly you change into nothing but a shadow.
I sit on the cold wet ground crying and confused.
I’m wondering how you could have left me, how you could just disappear on me.
I forget about the burger we shared and it falls to the ground falling apart. It is ruined.
I sit there for so long, not moving. Slowly I make my way back home. I am young. I am lost.
I am waiting. You never come. You never save me. You were my hero. But now….I cant remember. All I have left is my memory and even that is kind of fuzzy.
Sitting so low, everything is out of reach.
I am scared and you aren’t there.
You never reappear.
Copyright © Anna Eberle | Year Posted 2012
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