For My Lost Brother Frankie

Suicide took your pain away But left us with questions unanswered Mom did not know it till her dying day But I'm sure silently she wondered. 'Suicide is painless' so says the song For the one who left, it could be But we have carried this grief for so long You must know how it's eating me. Regrets like a replaying video Of a story that had no valid end Is like drowning in this inferno Of an anguish refusing to mend. What I'd give for a brief sort of discourse There to ask you the reasons why Of all choices you chose that recourse All these years... I continue to die. - - For my beloved brother Frank Buhain (June 24,1957-May 15,2003) Tarlac City Philippines