Brother

When you walked out that door You forgot to say goodbye Or you possibly remembered But felt no need to try You left us here alone To fend for ourselves It is hard to stay strong When you are 10 and 12 You said you had to leave You needed a way out Well Brother, you chose A selfish route Locked deep inside The four walls of my mind Is the rememberance of you When you were once kind Your heart burned with love For your sisters so young You promised to protect us Your most treasured, we were among Now you have been gone For several torturing years There will never exist a well Big enough to consume our tears Our heads filled with bruises Our minds filled with anguish To escape such harsh discipline Our one prayer and wish We have now grown accustomed To aggression and pain Our conversational deprivation Has kept us chained With these locks so tight But the keys in our very hands We chose not to leave eachother On this you made a stand Well now, Brother She is leaving me as well It is my time to greet lonliness With more stories to tell To be hurt by loved ones Is nothing peculiar But to fight this battle alone Is to take hands with pressure Smile at depression And embrace solitide...