Best Sadbrother Poems
Gone he is, this brother of mine
Left is an empty hole
Visions remain of his misery
As death came to claim his soul
Weak and frail was this hand I held
And his breath dark as night
I knew too well the end was coming
But, could not leave the sight
Stay I did , and watch the last
Breath, echo the end
The visions remain and torment me
The loss of my brother, my friend
There’s an empty space inside of me
That ‘s hollow and can’t be filled
A vacancy that no-one can see
A part of me was killed
Dear, dear brother I miss you so
You are always on my mind
People will come and people will go
But, you my dear were one of a Kind !
The little girl lays sleeping
In a pillow of shallow tears
Her night was filled with sorrow
And her deepest darkest fears
She awakens to an empty room
For her brother can not be found
She quietly says another prayer
As she lays her head back down
For her brother has leukemia
And he's fighting for his life
The pain she feels is staggering
And it cuts her like a knife
"There's not much hope" the doctor says
"And we're doing all we can"
But her little brother, dying young
Was something, she can't understand
It's 3 am and the phone starts to ring
"Oh no!" she says, "I hope everythings okay"
It was the doctor, bearing bad news
For her brother had passed away
So remember the little children
And their families, when you pray
That one day soon, we'll find a cure
And no one has to die this way
She drew a picture of a zipper going down
my mom and I stared at the picture on the refrigerator
with a frown.
We analyzed the picture as if we were psychologists
and tried to unearth the real meaning
What could a zipper going down symbolize
I glanced back and forward at her and it
A dark thought crept into our heads
What if she was being touched
and this was her way of crying out for help
I stared into her eyes with new found fear
could my brother be touching this child?
Every since I could remember I had been
calling her my niece but in reality
we weren't connected by blood
My brother had taken her dead beat dads place
and entered himself as her daddy in this race
it was the honorable thing to do
and because he was being so damn charitable
we never let that dark thought come
about again.
It was a couple of years later when
the picture finally came to life
and the girl finally ended her silence
I've never been so embarrassed
our first inclination was right
and now she is forever ruined
by a supposed father figure and
my older brother.
Now he is locked away.
Him and his sins behind bars.
I will never forgive what he has done.
My only regret is that I didn't realize
this sooner. That day. That fear I felt.
The picture.