My Brother

His chocolate skin seems black

among the pale walls

The crooked smile

reveals his discolored tooth

Approaching me silently

My soft touch

grazes his prickled hair

His sarcasm

distorts his great understanding of me

Strutting his muscles with a sleeveless

black shirt

Our voices strained

low and barely audible

He wanders around languorously

as we converse

words thrown at each other

battling to be right

Stubborn as a crying baby

he strives to be his own person

His gray blue eyes

catch mine as I look up

I turn away

as he reaches for something

Anything

to indulge his munchies

Author: ~ELM~Sister Lou~

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