Sister's Love

A Sister’s Letter In a letter I found written to your sister, you wrote no problem existed too large or small she could not bring it to you for counsel and support. Best sister in the world, I read on, whereupon these moist old eyes gave way to sobbing at the intense sincerity of a closeness unrepeatable now. You stood there beside her as she faded from us, a circumstance utmost love of family could not alter even in devotion so great I shy at its summoning. Could a mother find anything sadder or sweeter as each of you, a testimony of sororal love born to me. Harmony is silent now mid-tune in a song whose chorus cannot come round. ©Kathryn McL. Collins June 12, 2004