Role Model
In his defense
Identical footprints
Which were never meant to be traced
Impressionable eyes
Often disguised
Longing to suffer a taste
Following the lead
Of his same seed
Mimics the brother he idols
Their fatal mistake
Discussed at the wake
Where torrential eyes were unbridled
The older offspring
Choked by the rings
Decades before the event
The shadows that passed
Wearing a mask
Escaped with the fortunes they'd spent
In memory of my brother: Stop Smoking
an original poem by the "poemdog" Daniel Turner
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