You are ten again
Everything to gain
Backseat of dad's car
Brother at your left
Concrete racing underneath
Being ten consists of:
Shared dusty motel space
New school every two weeks
He's still there though
Your brother
You have what it takes
Ten minus six years
Is that burning house
Unrelenting sirens, smoke
Baby brother in your arms
Dad crying himself to sleep
Twenty years from ten lands you
With him in your car
Times are changing
And you seem to be racing
Towards the end of the world itself
"How many angels
Can dance on the head of a pin?"
Michael, Lucifer
Pawns in their chess game
The swan song itself:
Your brother, falling into hell
In Kansas, where home burned down
You broke the promise you made to him
Yourself
On scraped knees,
Not a man
Now broken shell
You are thirty two years old today
Photo album in lap
A dead brother with no epitaph
No longer yours
This apple pie life you wanted so badly
Has never been so bitter sweet.
This is rather beautifully written.