Dear Anna,

Whyd you leave?
Because you could for-see
the exceptions they had for me?
Or was it because you wanted to live life free
Unburdened by what happens
In your absence?

Sister is behaving marvelously
She sees I graduate in a month
She’s stuck in a slump
She needs me to bail her out
Probably even buy her a house

Mother is mother
Always smothering me with love  
Because she has no other
I’m big brother
Always with an eagles eye
Watch our sisters get smother by step father

Father always attempting to control me
I am me he is he
He’s like a flicking light in my life
There when it matters
But never truly transparent or really there

Anna why’d you leave?
I miss my sister
Always there for me
Never by obligation, or benefit
but by choice
You’re gone now
16 hours ahead
I never speak to you

I pray for your safe return
I yearn you come back the same

Anna,
Is it truly my responsibility to hold everybody’s heads above water as I sink?