POEM STARTER

Title your poem after someone you have felt profoundly influenced by in your life.

It doesn’t have to be someone you know personally, but the poem should reflect why this person is important to you, even if it is not directly about them.

For Becky

How could you leave us so unexpected? We waited, we waited For you but you just left us We needed you, I needed you Yo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills But I do know what it's like to be a witness, it kills Becky told me she love me, I'm thinking this isn't real I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah Welcome to the bottom of hell They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell You say you proud of me, but you don't know me that well Sit in my room, tears running down my face and I yell Into my pillowcases, say you coming to get us Then call a minute later just to tell us you not, I'm humiliated I'm in a room with a sister that I barely know Some lady in the corner watching us, while she taking notes I don't get it Becky, don't you want to watch your sisters grow? I guess drugs are more important, all you have to say is "no" But you won't do it, will you? You gon' keep drinking 'til those drugs kill you I know you gone but I can still feel you Why would you leave us? Why would you leave us? How could you leave us here? How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh Hey I got this picture in my room and it kills me But I don't need a picture of my sister, I need the real thing Now a relationship is something we won't ever have Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had? You shoulda been there when I graduated Told me you love me and congratulations Instead you left us at the window waiting Where you at Becky? We're too young to understand, where you at huh? Yeah, I know them drugs got you held captive I can see it in your eyes, they got your mind captured Some say it's fun to get the high but I am not laughing And what you don't realise and what you not grasping That I was nothing but a kid who couldn't understand I ain't gon' say that I forgive you 'cause it hasn't happened I thought that maybe I feel better as time passes If you really cared for me, then where you at then? Why would you leave us? Why would you leave us? How could you leave us here? How would you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh Hey Our last conversation, you and I sat in the living room Talking 'bout my music and I brought you something to listen to You started crying, telling me this isn't you A couple weeks later, guess you were singing a different tune You took them drugs for the last time, didn't you? They took you from us once, guess they came back to finish you Crying my eyes out in the studio is difficult Music is the only place that I can go to speak to you It took me everything inside of me to not scream at your funeral Sitting in my chair, that person talking was pitiful I wish you were here Beckah but every time I picture you All I feel is pain, I hate the way I remember you They found you on the floor, I could tell that you felt hollow Gave everything you had plus your life to them alcohol bottles You gave everything you had plus your life to them alcohol bottles Don't know if you hear me or not, but if you still watching, why? Why would you leave us? Why would you leave us? How could you leave us here? How would you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh Hey Sometimes I think about like Sometimes I think about things like, you know When I have kids, I'm like You won't be there, you know? You won't be there for any of that And I'll never get to see you again Sometimes I wish I would've just called you I wish I would've just picked up the phone, wish you were here I mean you should've been there for us, you should have been here Them drugs got you, right? Them drugs got you, right? I wish you were here How could you leave us -NF [Re edited by me]
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