How Do You Love Them?

Lyra on Nov 14, 2009

My sister and I used to fight a lot. This was my answer to that, it’s a bit tacky though.

How do you live in perfect love?

Like an eagle or like a dove

How do you cope with brothers three?

When I have a sister I wish not to see

How do you love them, honour them and trust them?

How do you miss them when they’re not there?

I wish not to see her, hear her, hate her!

But how do I love her when she’s hard to bare?

Oh for a moment of freedom I seek!

But when she is there my future is bleak

How do you cope with a sister like mine?

How do I love her when she crosses the line?

Sometimes I like her, miss her, love her

Mostly I fear her she gets in my hair

I wish not to see her, hear her, hate her!

I wish I could kick her out of my lair

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N. Lloyd Andrews on Nov 16, 2009
Very interesting view on family.

I see the dynamic with my own children in this. I also see life growing up with my sister who I hated for a time.

We are now very close. Time can bring many changes.
hfj on Nov 16, 2009
Nice poem and flow. Fighting siblings, we’ve all been there before. well done

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