It felt as though, I was all alone,
As I lay awake that night,
The fighting the screaming
I remember though it seemed like yesterday,
Mother and father worried, how could you not have known?
Cops always at our door,
Each time telling us you did wrong,
Or was it that time, you didn’t come home?
Maybe it was the fighting,
But what was it all for?
The drugs, your friends,
Told us we weren’t needed anymore,
Tension set in for a while,
We fretted for you,
But we’ll never comprehend.
Sister, sister, can’t you see?
Your pain is our pain,
We’re breaking apart,
But you’ll never know,
That you’re hurting you and your hurting our family.
What happened to those days of past?
We worked things out,
Treated each other like friends,
It’s a shame it’s just a memory now,
And it ceased to last.
Sister we miss you,
What’s left of you anyway,
Those drugs have taken your soul,
You’ve lost our trust and we’ve tried to help,
You keep telling us there’s nothing wrong, so what else can we do?
Sister, why did you have to give it a go,
Now it has you I can’t get you back,
I loathe them hate them, it took you away,
Give her back, my sister, I’ll never know.
*By Raven Tears(Copyright2008)*
Author notes
This poem is based on both past and present events about my sister.
In a nutshell, she turned to drugs, thought she'd have a better life with them, but she was obviously wrong, she was going well for a while now we've lost her again.
What it was like to have a sister I'll never know, but we've tried helping her, tried making her seek out professional help but in her eyes she's okay and she doesn't need anything.
I'll never stop hating drugs, the things we had to go through, still lurk in my mind, I miss having a sister.
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Comments
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I wish this was not a true story.But truth is often the last thing we like.Your feeling for your sister have touched my soul.If it ever possible please let her know that her brothers are also very worried for her.Please try to convince her showing our comments that there may be a way out to get rid of addiction by reading poetry and composing a few if she likes to.This is very heartfelt write and thanking you for entering this poem in my contest I wish you all the best.
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welcome to my world. nice.
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THIS DEEPLY TOUCHES MY HEART!!!
I have seen the results of drugs also, my ex's sister is now a waste, a lost soul because of what drugs did to her and made her groupies do to her. It is such a sad world where drugs rule more and more each day. It seems so overwhelming when trying to change peoples outlook and make them see they are destroying themselves and everyone who has contact with them.
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