We’re the dark shadows in your eyes
Always cut down by your tongue
Long before we could speak
Before we could hold a breath
We stuck together
Clung to sanity as we clung to each others’ hands
Asking questions no child should know existed
Your family turned their back on you
So you turned away from us
Made money your home
Deceit a doctrine you followed religiously
Fooling everyone who didn’t know you
You made us cry tears of rage and frustration
Every day for as long as the sun shone
And the moon ruled
You’ll never gather enough darkness to destroy us
Our mother’s undying love forever surging through our veins
A gift of US a shelter from the storm
Our scars glorious reminders
Of all the battles we eagerly fought
To eventually win the war
To become the opposite of you
As if you could bend no lower
You tried to draw a line through blood
It wasn’t enough to Sever ties between us and you
You needed to cut us apart
Pit one against another
Drown our hearts in your hate
A gloom you learned from your mother
Hoping to kill our spirits
As dead as yours
But we are stronger than your pain
And smarter than your hate
You will never destroy what we know and what you cannot understand
The love of Siblings
Mel Evers wonders about it all 