OE 6th | Poem : Brothers

HELLO!

For this free entries, I want to share a poem,

Brothers

Now man-to-man; 

Once child and child

At play

Beneath our mother’s aura; 

Brothers bound in innocence –

Mother’s tearful reticence was 

Hiding in her smile.

Deeper hung the lead weight 

Heavy in her heart 

Oxidizing

: 

The man she never mentioned

Slept between the beats.

We slept cuddled in the sheets.

We’d be older when she’d tell us that

Our father died at war –

The day the family ruptured; saw

The tired rings bless Mum’s kind eyes.

Now we’re grown-up brothers

Skirmishing with grown-up life.

And still the aura glows, tho’ distant; 

Dimmer.

Mother knows we’re wiser, 

Tighter

In our brotherhood of blood.

We sense it; sense her, 

Sleeping

Comfy in the wood. 

DRC psssttt : Argghhhhh!!! I need a 'brother' in my life!

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