Adolescent Rants

My poems are posted in chronological order, so this next poem was the second one I wrote. It's about dealing with death and loss and how children are forced to mature when placed under these circumstances. Due to the nature of its subject, I think it's fit to reflect on the friends and loved ones we have lost as well as reach out a hand to their families and friends who may still be coming to terms with it.

Adolescent Rants

How do you inform someone their loved one has passed?

If it only evokes reddened eyes,

Shedding tears of regretful sorrow

For an oblivious soul-Don't do it.

How do you tell someone an acquaintance left the world?

When it will only inspire awkward moments

Of silence-wrought empty stares and shrugs

Against sighs and fast-mummered prayers-Say it quick.

How do you hammer together right words for an elegy?

If you can't spell death without sadness

and funeral without truth-Shy away.

How do you say goodbye at a funeral?

If you doubt a corpse can hear,

and death can feel-Walk away.

How do you do all this if you're a kid?

GROW UP.