When you are 16
They forget you’re ia child
One brother in college
The other his girlfriends
And the youngest sister
Is abandoned in this home
Not my home
It was made clear by the alcoholic
Step parent
I don’t live here
And tequila sunset afternoons
Of her disease near its death
The viciousness is felt
Hot like the breath of the addict
Hissing at her husband’s kid
******* dumb little *****
I’m not sharing him”
And she is meaning
My father is off limits
To his daughter, you see
As a sick competition
And it doesn’t ever change
Even in his death
And no one would believe this anyway
As only I lived it.
Apr 25
Apr 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM UTC
When you are 16
They forget you’re ia child
One brother in college
The other his girlfriends
And the youngest sister
Is abandoned in this home
Not my home
It was made clear by the alcoholic
Step parent
I don’t live here
And tequila sunset afternoons
Of her disease near its death
The viciousness is felt
Hot like the breath of the addict
Hissing at her husband’s kid
******* dumb little *****
I’m not sharing him”
And she is meaning
My father is off limits
To his daughter, you see
As a sick competition
And it doesn’t ever change
Even in his death
And no one would believe this anyway
As only I lived it.
