Timothy Gaudette Poet Free verse

Family Ties

Looking into her eyes I find myself thinking of her sister, imagining the pain they will both suffer when they grow older. 
To think these girls will not find each other in life is ignorance, and to think they won’t resent those who made it impossible for them to be in each other’s lives is madness. 

Fire begat flames
Soot coated remnants of family ties 
Burned like a star
Silence encompasses the weary

I give you my strength child, though I do not know you. 
I give you my sins, those that I do not owe you. 
I feel your presence such as one feels tension in a hostile environment;
Such as one would feel a migraine
Such as one would feel pain from an amputated limb, a confusion of nerves
Such as one would feel love
Such as one would feel afraid
Such as one wouldn’t feel anything.

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