If you must know....

Something I scribbled down the other day - the reason for my "light posting", failing grip on sanity over the last week.


He sleeps and sleeps, my brother.
The rest of the family have quite lost the knack,
It seems - strangers to slumber for weeks
While my brother sleeps and sleeps.
No fairytale endings here,
No crowd-pleasing flips of logic
To uncast the spell, heal the hurt,
Raise him from his bed of seeming-death.
No, my brother sleeps and sleeps.
He sleeps for all of us now.