Why me?

Poem of the Dead and the Gone

No one appreciates my time
Maybe because I'm too kind
I lost my parents in a flash
I don't know how but I just crashed
I cant do this alone, should have known

I yearn for my mothers touch and just cant handle much
    I want my father to shout at me, maybe then it would help me breathe
I want my siblings to scream and shout, only then would it give me a feeling of not falling apart

I want to fall, I want to cry, I want to hope all this to die
I don't want love, I don't want peace all I want is the world to see

I'm not perfect, I'm 16, I'm a boy who works all night
I cant take care of my siblings and act like its fine
I hope it works, I hope we survive,
I don't know how I would face my parents, if the world ever does die


In my novel The Dead and the Gone, Alex is a 16 year old boy who doesn't want anything but everything to go back to normal. For the birds to still sing, for his mother and father to still live, he doesn't want much from this world but just want its to go back to normal. Hes 16 yet taking care of his two younger sisters, not only is that hard but without a older adult to look up to, Alex finds it harder and harder trying to live up to his sisters demands.