Photograph: The Wall, Washington DC - ©Copyright by Linda Vible

BROTHERS MINE

Brothers, brothers, where’d you go?
Off to heaven and left me below
Full of sorrow unexpressed,
Alone and grieving, so bereft.

Though I often feel you near
I wish so much you were really here.
I miss the comradeship we shared,
The crazy things we sometimes dared.

There’s a yearning in my soul
Where you once made it whole…
And some guilt that I still live
While you gave all there is to give.

But, surely as the sun brings dawn,
While I breathe, your memory lives on.
Search the world; you’ll never find
A truer memorial than my mind.

©Copyright October 31, 2006 by Thurman P. Woodfork