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Homecoming-For My Brother


My brother Fred after being gone from home for ten years, came home.



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It had been ten long lonely years,
since last I saw you.
The grief and pain caused by another,
had kept you form returning.
I was a child and did not understand,
those things you went through.
Here you were again spewing lessons,
you had been learning.

Those times you were gone left me,
wondering the how and why.
You never called, I did not know,
if you were still living.
At times I was hurt and angry,
recalling our last good-bye.
Yet, too, you are my older brother,
for me it was a matter of forgiving.

You seemed embarrassed at the time,
and distance you had achieved.
How your family had just become,
an insignificant memory.
Still I laughed and cried.
Could you have ever conceived?
I cared not of the how and why.
You were here safe with me.






















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