Open hands.
open eyes.
open ears.
Mindfulness, told me to care.
It didn't let me know how to deal -
how to deal when others don't.
Mother, Father, Brother, and Sister
everyone I've ever known,
how do you deal with the loss of feeling.
How does one cope without
an ear to the ground, an eye out for another,
and hands ready to pull people up out of their stupor.
Yesterday, my cousin died.
I had no relationship with him
other than when people I know
talked about him going in out and jail.
I contacted all his brothers and sisters,
no one had spoken to him in years
and his overdose was met with a shrug.
He might have been the worst kind of person
and still here I am meeting his end
with confusion and unknowing
for why his life couldn't have been different.
I didn't know my 'cousin', more like a stranger than anything else, but I still wish his life could have been better. The world is a better place without him, but it's sad that he'll never be able to make that not true.