Judbo2

Windy, rainy days spent inside with family, playing and having nothing but fun. Warm morning by the creek with the fish and deer Riding the scooter in the street with siblings Talking with family in the kitchen Katheryn throwing back her head in laughter Max doing his old woman impression Nick sitting in the chair wrong Mom leaning on the sink and telling stories Roses on the table in the front room Their sweet smell filling the ground floor with love But roses wilt And children grow And childhood wonders disappear Sometimes even before the children grow up And soon, you know, you will be the only one in the house with your parents The other

Look at us Me and Him. We smile We laugh We talk We make faces We get mad We tell jokes I swear and curse He usually doesn't We look right back But you can’t see it The inside The inside of us We cry We scream It isn’t fair Why us? Loneliness engulfs us and we cry We think about it We can’t help it We are afraid Me and him Oh, not him! Someone else A friend We have much in common But we don’t cry in front of our friends if we can help it And we don’t cry for the same reasons Though we share fear We share the blame We feel the unfairness of the world Me and Him.