Late Night

I remember a time

where my brain was twisted in anger.

Anger so great,

I couldn’t even stand myself.

I remember the day my brother was born

and the smile on my face

as he laid in my arms

I don’t know what went wrong

when we grew.

The first time my mother left us alone for work

was the first time he bothered me

“Can we play,” he whined.

And I know it’s foolish

and I know the damage I did was irreversible

If there’s anything I could reverse

it’d be what I did that day.

Heartlessly, I dragged his body over to the kitchen,

screams and wails filling the room.

Grabbing the scissors

Pointing them at his ears

And threatening him to leave me alone

wasn’t my best move.

If I could reverse anything in my life,

it’d be the pain I inflicted

on the boy who wanted to play with his older sister.

Sienna LaRocque ‘27

Late Night is an acrylic painting on a 36x24 inch canvas, painted over the course of two months.This painting was made to represent the exhaustion and overwhelm of a late night as a highschool student. With acrylic paint, I exaggerated colors to create the warm and drowsy atmposphere of a late night, spent doing work. In the painting, my head is down, on a messy, cluttered desk to represent the feeling of frantic disorder in the face of absolute exhaustion. The work features small details, such as the glow to the bed representing the allure of sleep, and the door cracked open, representing life that exist beyond that exact moment (or night), that the painting captures.

Regret