A Poem: Do you have siblings?

We used to boast too

That we had brothers and sisters

Some decades ago

Everyone had several

Siblings always disagree

Quarrel and fight

Despite their grades in school

Difference in ages

Closeness to the parents

A pecking order

Has to be in place

My brother never apologized to me

Or thanked me

For all the spanking I took for him

He’d never known the causes

Till his death before adolescence

(2025.02.28)