DEATH Poem: The One Little Kid with a Bright Future, by anonymous young person

Written by an anonymous young person from Echo Glen Children’s Center,
11-13-2024

Two kids
who never got taught right from wrong,
One with a bright future
and the other who took the wrong path.

The other always encouraged to do right
but can never do right himself
Always teaching
always observing
to protect and to shield the younger one from danger

He never really knew
that everything he did
would fall back
on the one little kid
with a bright future

They were twins, damn near,
doing everything together
Always with one another
because they were all they had
Their father was never there
and their mother was always sick
but at least they had each other

Until one day, the path the older one chose to take
led him to death
His little brother reacted the worst way possible
Getting into gangs,
violence,
robbery,
and even murder.

Everybody else looked at him as a criminal.
As he wishes he could just go back
to that one little kid
with a bright future.

The bright future continued to dim,
just as the life from his older brother’s eyes did

He too, had to figure out why his older brother chose this path
The only way to do that,
was to walk the path his older brother once did.

Upon walking that path,
he had suffered hardships,
that he would not have known
if he didn’t choose this for himself,
At the end of the day,
he figured out why his older brother chose
to die,
to live,
and to teach.
The way he did

We’ll never know
how that one little kid with the bright future
will turn out
because he himself,
has not figured that out