Cheerful and childish
You still are a child

I remember when you would visit
With your 2 brothers and 1 sister
We would play hide and seek in the house
The house as a foundation of love
It made us who we are today

Your siblings and mine
Would break the rules
We knew we were rebels
We weren't allowed to play in the house but we did it anyway
Mostly hide and seek
Its like you were invisible
You lurked like a phantom
While never getting caught

Your two brothers shut you out
like closed doors refusing to open under any circumstances
The girls like glass doors
seeing through with false hope that you can enter

You were always there
Until you weren't
Until your dad took you and your siblings away
Until he ripped our house apart
Until he broke our family like a robber breaks window
He got inside and robbed you from us

He chained you like a pitbull and locked you away in an abandon house for nobody to find
He is disloyal and dishonest

You were different
You remember when you were happy
When our families came together in that house
Your three siblings and my five
We were as close as the tangled christmas lights in an attic

You were my best friend
You were only 16
Were

Early August some drunk killed you
Your spirit still so young
Your memory creeps around our family
Our house burned from your loss
We were left with nothing
no carpenter to rebuild

It’s hard to forget you
When I still see you everywhere
It’s hard to forget you
When your spirit follows me like a lost puppy
It’s hard to forget you
When you visit me everyday
Reminding me to wear a seatbelt
So Carpenter, build me a haven away from now
Because I'm done playing hide and seek
And you always win