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They Say You Are Gone MAG

April 29, 2013
By HayleySmith GOLD, Yorktown, Virginia
HayleySmith GOLD, Yorktown, Virginia
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they say you are gone (where did you
go, and will you be back) i think
they are looking for you (like hide and
seek)
a crash (two deaths) a hospital (one life)
blood (i am too young to be afraid)
i don't know how to miss you (but
i do)
one brother gone (josh) one brother spared
(jon) one friend i didn't know, and i
am too young to know permanency (death)
and you are hiding (but i am not ready
to seek)
and jon is mom (is my other brother
lucas) is too young to watch a casket
lowered
lowered
lowered
and you are in it (but you are just hiding
until i am old enough to understand) forever


The author's comments:
I have three brothers, Jon, Josh, and Lucas. Josh died in a car accident when I was five. Jon was driving. Josh was fourteen.

This poem is in the style of e.e. cummings.

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on Dec. 1 2014 at 6:15 pm
everlost PLATINUM, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix

This poem always gives me chills. Excellent writing.