Walked Away

When she first left I was suspended in fear Confused and alone, I just couldn’t believe my ears I could not trust that what they heard was real That you could just leave and not understand what I feel For sixteen years, you were a presence in my life Then one fateful day you disappeared overnight You left us for him and never looked back Farewell my sister, you’ve taken a different track A road that keeps you forever from me I don’t think you realised how painful it would be For yourself and myself, for our mother and our father And above all the one that you hurt the most, you liar We both know who it was so it need not be said You ruined a life and his spark is now dead Unbelievable as your absence, this is far worse You turned on our brother and it was all just a farce Not only do I still struggle to live with my past Again and again my world shakes, uncontrollably fast Only a few years after you left someone else followed Into the darkness he walked, the darkness it swallowed If that was not painful enough, I still had to live on I had to forge ahead and I had to be strong I had people who depended on my courage and strength I had to walk the line and I had to walk its length First it was my sister and now it was my father Maybe if I did something, maybe if I tried harder Maybe they wouldn’t have left, walked away Maybe they would have found enough love for me to stay