Anna's pov while she is dead
For a long time
I nearly failed
Then inexplicably
I began the long steep climb upward
My last chance
But someone took my place
There were times I stayed
To listen to my mother cry
Then one morning
My mother realized that we had everything
Immediately
I felt like I had a shrine
Jesse, sitting on the couch said,"She would have thought it was funny"
The bitter sore memory that someone has left this world
You are still in it
Then one day you look down and see how much pain
Kate's pov as she's alive
I wonder if
Anna lingered in the spaces between the words
I wonder if she knows
That Daddy fell deep after she left
I wonder if she knows that every time I see two little girls
I think of us
Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 11:40 AM UTC
Anna's pov while she is dead
For a long time
I nearly failed
Then inexplicably
I began the long steep climb upward
My last chance
But someone took my place
There were times I stayed
To listen to my mother cry
Then one morning
My mother realized that we had everything
Immediately
I felt like I had a shrine
Jesse, sitting on the couch said,"She would have thought it was funny"
The bitter sore memory that someone has left this world
You are still in it
Then one day you look down and see how much pain
Kate's pov as she's alive
I wonder if
Anna lingered in the spaces between the words
I wonder if she knows
That Daddy fell deep after she left
I wonder if she knows that every time I see two little girls
I think of us
This is a blackout poem from My Sisters Keeper
Both poems are written at the same time but Anna is writing it dead and Kate is alive
