+ The Day You Were Gone Poem by Jordan Legaspi

The day you were gone


It was true but I didn’t understand
days and years I let them fly
and it does, the day you were gone
Learn to play the game just not to die
Painful it though; face the other side
learn to be a man; the day you were gone.
Burden of you, forever can’t hide
and end up the silence with the gun?
Dad! I cannot, since the day you were gone
The refusal ones and to me- the ruin
and this time it cannot be, my dead “me”.
After the kiss, and the day you were gone:
You are cruel- the promise of lies
unto me deadly faces of guilt and pain;
You are indifferent, hard to please
-the abuse, made me a sick man
and that is in the day you were gone.