Frozen

Frozen

The tears didn't bring you back

The pleas and yells didn't convince you either

I watched you lay there, lifeless and with pale eyes

Your eyes were open but you were gone

Everyone rushed into the room at the sound of a daughter's scream

Everyone yelled and begged you to come back

11 year old me just watched in utter disbelief

Of course I knew what it meant

But everyone brushed past me, nobody cared

Selfish of me to say, I guess it was because we all felt the pain

But if only someone held me that day

Maybe I would care about people better now

Maybe I would understand how to grief

Maybe I would be more sympathetic to others in their time of grief

Maybe I wouldn't have grown up too fast

Maybe I would have more friends to walk life with

But I'm still frozen in my steps as I was that day

Everyone is still brushing pass me

I'm still in disbelief about life itself

Alone like I was that night at 9pm

Alone I still am

Asking life what it has to offer me

Expecting people to offer me the same as I give them

But I guess everyday is still like that night

I'm still frozen in my step, invisible to world

Picture Credit: @The New York Times

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