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Fallen
All good things come in threes.
Revolving around each other
Leaning upon one another
Until one collapses suddenly,
Leaving the remaining two shaken,
Dwindling on the edge
One fractures into pieces
Barely able to stay upright
after an eternity of reliance.
The other cannot seem
to fall as quickly.
Is it strength? Ignorance?
She had been pushed away,
Unable to find her way into coexistence.
Instead, she watches, she listens,
Inserting herself secretly,
Grasping at every moment of recognition
She is vulnerable, but not on the inside
One has fallen,
One is ready to fall, and
One is wishing she could fall
Just so that she could be included.
A three-way scale, originally balanced
is now tipped irreversibly.
Is this the fault of the creators?
The ones whose histories are knotted together so tightly
But now are fraying at the edges?
Are they to blame
For the unsteady nature
Of what they have created?
It’s too late.
Too much time has already passed.
They all must be content
with what they now have left.
After all, what can they do?
All good things must come to an end.
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This poem was written based on the novel Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. It illustrates my perception of family relationships within the story and how the actions of each affect the others.