I'm sending you a poppy
to tell you i remember
happy birthday, 11/11
No memory have i
of that day you were newborn
mum remembers dad remembers
you were too young
i remember you
i remember childhood pranks played on our brother
outings to the park with our sister
i remember why and because;
a family joke,
a young irritating child and her big sister, world wide and knowledgeable
I remember tears
cried when you left
10 months of thinking, maybe you'd come back
now i know you're gone for worse
traitor, betrayer, coward
I remember you, big sister, like the Poppy remembers death.
