I closed your finger in the door
Once, at least twice
I know it was on purpose
Because I was jealous of you
Of all the attention you got
I didn’t know back then
But I can see it in every video
Jumping in front of the camera
Singing and dancing to capture focus
Jealous I wasn’t the baby
Years later, once there was a new baby,
I closed both your fingers in the car door
On the same day
You can’t have done that on accident
I showed you this poem
You had several thoughts
You still get all the attention—
You know that I stuck my fingers in the door on purpose, right?
Maybe we were fighting for the same thing.
Hannah Schadler is a junior at University of the Cumberlands majoring in English and Communications. When not at school, she lives in Lexington, Ky. She has won several awards from the Scholastic Young Writers Association and KET.
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