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The Drawing
May 5, 2023
My siblings never forgave my parents
for their misunderstandings,
precisely at a developmental stage in age.
Every 5 years,
they each, one by one,
left for college,
never turning back home
and only leaving me behind.
When I came home from school
with the drawing in my little hand
of a large house
and with a family of each member
smiling,
the sound of two beasts growling filled my ears
not acknowledging I am standing there
with a flood of tears
pressuring the dam.
In my eight-teenth year
I can feel my eyes
Still swelling.
Am I next to go?
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Growing up my siblings never enjoyed the presence of our parents. They held negative energy and distributed it in every room they went. I never understood fully when I was in elementary school what was happening within my family. By the time my siblings were leaving the house whether for college or a new place to live, I realized the destruction. Now as a Senior graduating from High school, I question whether I will be on the same path; Will I be next to go away from home and never come back?