they say I was taught to love you
that taking care of you
             protecting you
                   giving you
everything I could give you
was conditioned into me
like dad had broken open my skull
and imprinted love sammy onto my brain ( Read more... )

you don’t hear it
you hear the anger, yes - the disappointment, the resentment
but not the love
not the pleading, not the begging
not the brother don’t do this
                      don’t do this to yourself
                      don’t do this to meand you don’t feel it ( Read more... )