Learning the Hard Way Poetry

We Didn’t Know

Cleaning Up After a Suicide

Photo by Andreea Popa on Unsplash

We didn’t know
what we would find
when you left us forever.
We came together
to clean up, clean out.
We didn’t know
the depths of pretense,
the sham of family love.
We didn’t know
how broken we were
until you broke us.

To my baby brother, Josh

Missing Parts

Jarred

Flight

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