Your Brother: A Poem - by Ralph Indrisano

Dearest Brother,

Today, I came to visit you in your sullen death bed.

Today, I saw more life leave your face

Today, I can see the indomitable life you are and will always be

Beyond your body’s wrenching woe.

I can see your soul you share with me

I can hear wordless words from eternity.

I can fell my only desire in what you disappear.

Words that scan reality

Words that see from not sight

Words that hear beyond sound

That finds eternity in me

Together, we walked the earth

Wordless pledges we have made

Wordless pledges before time came to be

I fell the grief that will come to me

I hear the despair that will come to me

I see me leaving my visions that you made for me

When your body leaves me.

I have heard the best nonetheless.

I know from the best that I am the best.

I know me better now as your body leaves me.

The pledges we made are yet to be

Pledges we made from eternity

Pledges that will come to be.

Forever