Brothers To The Bone

Brothers To The Bone

What did you see reflected in the faces of your old world progenitors

Did they hold up you up and away

or hold you up to the sun

Did you notice you were different

or did you wonder why everyone else was alone

What did your lovers think

Did they join one soul or two

Did your children have three parents

or one mother and one father with two voices

Did you beg your gods for loneliness

or was the concept of by oneself not even conceived

Perhaps you were thankful never to know the dark side of solitude

Did you share more than most humans could

conjoined in spirit

or did your body keep your essences still and separate

The questions and the answers you keep now to yourself

twins of silence

Acrobatic leaps of imagining won’t bring one close

to knowing who you were and how you lived

but one thing you both do share

you were brothers to the bone

June 13, 2007

Tressa Lee Breen
(Inspired by Chang and Eng in “In The Mutter Museum” by Teller from “Penn & Teller’s How To Play In Traffic”)