Poem

The Hairbrush

The Sequoia campfire gusts in the wind,

With a flame strong enough to puncture a soul,

The memories expressed in the translucent gas

Whose toxins we consume:

The perfect stucco home,

With walls colored emptiness.

Those tender pets you got me,

That no one took care for.

That pastiche picture frame,

only you fit in.

The fake “I love you” cards,

We keep to seem ordinary.

The raindrops,

That cleansed my filthy body when you wouldn’t.

The morning petrichor,

Only I could come to admire.

The kitchen that aches your absence,

Leaving us famished and empty.

The windy influence you leave behind,

That molded me to who I am.

The somber hairbrush,

You leave isolated in the bathroom drawer.

The brush that you avail and allow wither

The obliging brush you throw away without consideration.

Pieces of you weaved into its bristles,

never allowed to change or flourish.

The aged handle,

You firmly wrap your fingers around.

When all the hollow brush wanted to do was feel.

You leave and come home

locking the brush in the room,

And what’s left of you,

It loosens

And the room carries it away.

Analysis

The purpose of this poem was to create a metaphor of what it’s like to be abandoned.First the poem starts by writing about a memory this person has,while sitting around a campfire the victim of abuse that I wrote about,is telling their story.”The memories in the gas” is all a metaphor for this victim to finally tell people what they went through.Then it he next long paragraph is a bunch of example of just how unhappy and how much the victim was abandoned by giving lots of examples like their parents didn’t cook or bath them.Then it goes into what the story is about “The Hairbrush” which represents this person being abandoned.It talks about how they locked the person up and “wrapped there hands around them” meaning Physical abuse and the last two lines are to show “how the room carries it away”,which means the pieces of the abuser left in the victim are slowly being removed by a outside force.Which is for the reader to determine it could be friends or love or new parents.But the story is basically about someone overcoming abandonment by using the outside world to help you overcame that.