Poems-Non Twilight

So I am in a Creative Writing class, and part of our overall grade is we have to write at least two poems for the semester...Well as you have probably noticed, I kind of like the story writing better ;) I like having the ability to be able to start a story, tell the plot and then end it. With a poem I feel like I am only getting to tell PART of my story. I hated writing poems in high school because there was ALWAYS so many "rules" and "structure" well I expressed this worry to my professor, who is BRILLIANT to say the least. He told me "Stop worrying about the rules...just write what you need to write. If you feel like you need to go back in and fix it then do it. But beautiful writing starts out with just writing what you know."

So that is what I did... I am going through a lot these days...with my dad...my grandma. It is just been a whirlwind two weeks. I havent had a relationship with my dad in three years and my Grandma just underwent a 7 hour surgery to take out her her spleen AND pancreas which had a cancerous tumor attached to it. VERY scary. So I used my emotions to write these two poems... Be nice...I havent writen a poem since middle school. (Im about to graduate college next year lol)

Miss you

I miss our fun car rides
I miss the excitement in your voice
asking me to do something with you
I miss knowing you are proud of me
and who I have become.
I miss your calmness
Now I fear your temper
did I do something?

I miss you
Your real laugh
Now there are only frown lines and fakeness
I miss your eyes, so full of life
They are empty to us
There’s no will to be here with us as a family
I miss you and our family ties
It was so full of life
Now it’s full of questions, doubt and hurt.
All because of you

I miss you dad
you haven’t been here in years
missing from this family I love.
Yet you are sitting here in front of me.
Do you know how many times I’ve cried myself to sleep?
Wishing you would come back to us?
Where are you dad?
We need you.

Poison

How dare you try to come into my family’s life
as if you belong here.
Who do you think you are;
trying to take over the body of a friend, a mother, a wife?
You are poison.

She is stronger than you
and no doubt will win.
She is like a saint
and you are a sin.

I hope you know we all hate you
as you add more people to your horribly long list
something you have no right in doing.

One day you will be gone
scientists and research will defeat you.
You will just be a horrible memory,
something that will not be missed

So goodbye,
and don’t come back.