Hungering

In the movie "Blue Car," teen poet Megan writes about how how she felt when her father left. But when her sister dies, she does not write about it. Below I've written that poem for her.

we were eating Spaghetti-O’s when

I said that you looked like our father.

you have his same chubby cheeks.

if I’d kept my mouth shut

you might have kept yours open

Instead,

your fork down ,

you began a hunger strike

but I ignored it,

so angry

at Daddy’s blue car,

unaware of how hungry you were;

how much you wanted to be an angel

like you were in your baby picture

with Daddy.