Love

I never truly understood what love is

Not when Mom and Dad
kissed each other
Or when my brother fell asleep
holding the cat in his arms

Not when I saw people
holding hands at the mall
Or when I saw Grandma and Grandpa
smile at each other

But I finally understood
when my sister found out
that her boyfriend passed away
in a car accident
And we found her on the bathroom floor
surrounded by pills and blood
with a razor blade in hand