Brotherly Love
I was ten sitting fearlessly on a top tube
As my brother pedaled his bike on a dirt road
Faster than the meanest dog of neighborhood
Chasing us away on the loop
You see how brotherly love does
When he plays doctor to a wound
Chewing guava leaves to patch
A skin to stop from bleeding
And to think one is better than him
To do such Math, you figure this out
A brother who took your four pennies
For a candy that costs you a nickel
This time, I'm sitting on his bedside
With fear that I will lose my brother
Six decades, four years, but no math
Can ever add life but one God
I may not have a hand to cure and heal
But a prayer to make him strong and well
For above all, there's only one power
To seek, to beg for His mercy to cure
.....my brother, Maxwell
poem by Efren Petalver Carranza
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