Regretful Past

, Irvine, CA

My sister’s hands
are smaller than mine
and one of them has a bite mark on it.
My sister pulls at her hair.
She plants a seed
that has never known sunshine.
Do you feel sorry for anything you’ve done before, Katie?
Would you?

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Mckay said...
today at 4:45 pm:

i find this to be very relateable. I would've appreciated a little more insight, but like you said the poem is self-explanatory. I love at the end the rhetorical questions. Sometimes it's good to end with questions rather than having everything known; a little unknown is good sometimes.

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Sakuya said...
Mar. 7 at 1:43 pm:

I greatly enjoyed this poem. Although it takes some understanding and inference of the situation it makes the reader work to understand the relationship

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RandomPoet said...
Jan. 19 at 7:33 pm:

I have 3 sisters one that is 21 another that is 18 and one that just turned 16. Its just a simple poem that has the question that one would want to ask a family member. It might be hard to get feeling like that from such a small poem. But it makes you wonder and want more once you read it. I think you should add more to this. But i like it the way it is aswell, so if it makes you happy the way it is it makes me happy as well :)