To My Older Brother(Dear David)

Do you remember the time
When we’d run around half crazy
With our bicycles and match box cars
When our days were never lazy?

Do you remember ninja turtles
How we’d play with each other?
Building tunnels in the snow
You were the best older brother.

Do you recall our many fights
Over stupid little things,
When we were teenagers
Spreading wider our wings?

Do you recall the years
When we didn’t like each other
And I thought I couldn’t have
A more lousy older brother?

Do you know how much I wish
I could take back hurtful words?
How easily I’d anger
I see now it was absurd.

D you know how much I care now?
How I think you’re like no other
And how I really couldn’t wish
For a better older brother?