Poems for Everything (Part#1)

Missing!?

Missing!?

She's missing!?

How can she be missing!?

I know she just left!?

How could she have just left!?

I know she was upset,

but she would ever have just left...

Hair hair is in ringlets,

her dress is beautiful,

she wears high heels,

and she is my sister.

She left the dance,

she just walked out,

and disappeared.

her mom is crying,

I'm trying not to,

Elijah and Austin are worried.

Austin says he's going to look for her,

Elijah follows him outside,

I run after them,

barefoot in my black and white dress.

The world goes black and white,

only one other shade of color is left,

and that is the image

of her red dress in my mind.

I feel the cold cement under my feet,

my heart racing,

my eyes burning.

Eli runs down the path

screaming her name.

Austin takes his tie and hat off,

giving them to me,

and racing after Eli.

I walk alone through the parking lot,

the cold pavement

making my feet numb,

tears start to fall

as I get the answering machine

at her house.

I beg her to call me back

if she gets the message,

sobbing as I speak.

I keep walking,

following the guys

down the path.

I see two figures as I yell her name,

hoping it's the guys

and not to freaks.

They stop in front of me,

and I fall into Eli's arms,

bawling my eyes out

repeating over and over:

"She's missing!

How can she be missing!?

I should have stopped her!

I should have ran after!"

He holds me,

telling me he should have too,

that it's not my fault.

Austin stands there silent,

thinking.

I don't know where

she could be,

praying she's okay.

Austin walks to the road,

Kalee's mom pulls up,

she's still crying,

I'm crying too.

I listen to Eli

Austin

and mama talking,

but it's unreal to me.

We walk back to the school,

mama and Tonya going to look

for Kalee in the car.

Eli runs around the school

towards the football field,

Austin and I walk the other way.

I scream her name,

Austin walking beside me.

He tries changing subjects,

but all I can think of

is how I was one of the last ones

to see her.

We start talking,

and finally I get a text message

from mama.

Kalee had just walked

in the front door.

I started crying in relif,

I tell Austin the news,

and he smiles.

I start to call Eli,

and Austin yells his name,

Eli answers and I tell him the news.

Austin and I start

walking back towards the school,

and when we get back to the doors,

he stops me.

He hugs me close,

and I lay my head on his shoulder,

he tells me it's okay now,

that tonight is going to be fun.

I noded and we waited for Eli.

When he got there,

he hugged me close,

and I know we were

both relieved.

She was okay,

and I would see her soon.

I'd make her swear to me,

that she'd never do it again.

The rest of the night,

it was nice,

but it could have been better.

My best friend,

my sister,

she was safe,

she is safe.