Performance Poem

It is a letter to a loved one but contains features of several prompts

Twin of My Enemy

To the heavens, I call out

Come back, come back

With laughter and joy

With no regrets

Come back with

Hide and seek in the park

And dancing in the kitchen to your favorite  songs

With your million excuses and goodnight kisses

Come back, come back

With the screams behind my door

Hundred phone calls just to hear my voice

That twisted smile

Sneaky ungrateful devil

Twin of my enemy

I ask not why

Because I know why

The taunts, the bullying, coming home with black,

And blues, the thrill of the needle

The voices in your head

I ask not WHY but HOW

I ask not why a man would rip himself from the world

But HOW COULD a man rip himself from the world?

Not why he chooses the pills over family

But HOW COULD he choose the pills over family?

Not why he took another man’s life

But HOW COULD he take another man’s life?

Not why he left

But HOW COULD he leave?

Leave me?

Butterflies in my stomach, like the first day of school

Waving goodbye as you stood at the corner scrambling

Through the box of pictures as I pack

The rest of your things

My mother had said this over and over

But now I see

I truly am, my father’s daughter

To the heavens I call out

Come back, come back

With laughter and joy

With no regrets

Come back, come back

With no gun, no anger

No bullet in your head

Sneaky ungrateful devil

Twin of my enemy

Please, please

Come back