BROTHERS

Brothers are like billiard balls

Banging against each other

Bing, bang no harm done,

Blood washes away,

Bones heal.

Insults and headlocks

Are common.

Mom, always there, ignores most,

But occasionally snaps, followed

By silence cold as artic ice.

Brotherly bonds grow strong,

Become woven steel.

Brothers cause

Little need for

Therapy.

I bruise easily,

Heal slowly,

Realize now

My loss -

No billiard brothers.