Poems

Why Did You Leave?

Why did you leave?
Why did you leave us brother?
Why did you leave me brother?
Why did you want to grow up so fast?
I guess I'm still too young to understand just like I was when you left.
Everyday I would wonder where did my brother go.
Oh maybe you were at school.
But you wasn't.
You wanted to grow up and move to Ohio.
That devilish woman enticed you.
Now you where stuck there finding multiple jobs, paying bills, taking care of her children, and everything else beyond the sun.
You should have been here with me instead.
I missed you so much brother.
Why did you leave us, me?
Were we not enough?
Now I'm all grown up and your finally an adult.
You have a kid now, I have a niece.
I was so happy and excited.
7 years later you finally come back to live with us.
What made this happen all of a sudden.
I know now, don't even tell me.
Your off to prison.
Why are you there for brother?
For rape, who did you rape?
You raped one of her children.
I still can't believe it, how could you do this?
But your still my brother.
No matter what you do, my love will never change.
I miss you so much.
Your my brother, my brother why did you even go?
We barely even know each other.
Wanna know why?
Because you grew up too fast and you didn't give us a chance to know each other.
I was too young.
Sometimes I still don't understand.
I just want you to answer this one question.
Why did you leave?

-Vendessa Robinson