Poems That Came From a Beanstalk

Since I've gone

Since I've gone

I've heard some things

Through  people

Through their words

I heard the boy

I grew up with

Is hurting

Lots of girls

They say he went

And crashed his truck

His head 

All full of dope

I wonder if

He thinks of me

Even through

The smoke

I heard a girl

Had shaved her head

She sneers instead

Of smiles

She fell in love

When I was there

Now he's left

Her crying

My little sis

She's grown up some

I left her all

Alone

Little does

She leave her room

Hope her head's

Not dying

My best friend

Goes through her days

I know she

Misses me

I thought of her

A lot last year

And how I 

Missed her too

It hit me hard

Just recently

We'll never have

A class

We'll never eat

School lunch as two

We'll graduate 

Apart

I've heard that boy

I use to watch

Yell and 

Goof around

Killed himself

Relentlessly

In twelve days

It's a year

He had a girl

She had a child

The child

Has no dad

I wonder how

They're doing now

How life can

Get so mad

I hear the girl

That smiled all day

Holds a 

Steady job

She use to ride the 

Bus with me

Now she

Drives a car

I hear things from

The little one

Of Mom

And of her mind

I see the way

Her eyes get bright

Then go dim

So fast

The fridge still stocked

With alcohol

Random spurts 

Of tears

It's hard to hear

The world goes on

Without me

Being there

It's hard to hear

The ones you love

Change

 Without your care

I sometimes feel

That if I stayed

Things wouldn't be

That bad

I'd still be part

Of all your lives

To paint them

You paint mine

But if I did

I would have died

My head would be

Far gone

I had to get 

Away from there

I know that

You know why

I know deep down

I left you all

Rotting in 

That place

You would've gone

Your own way

Yet even if

I'd stayed

So now you're in

My head all day

Just floating

Since I've gone