My Dearest Sister Donna
with love
Whose life is not without
sorrows
Bless you with God's grace from above
For you have the chance to
change tomorrows

 When you were young, but
only a child
Life dealt you some very
inward colds
Growing up was not that kind
and mild
A mother's arms from which
there were no holds

Memories of times of problems
and joy
Were then not felt to mean
what they do now
You were young and met a boy
That is life and girls do
that with a WOW

Love was sparsely sent and
rarely freely given
Not your fault, not your doing,
and not recalled
From your little heart the
love< you needed was driven
A time when parents were loving
the feeling of being alcoholed

So my dearest sister, I was
not always there
My life was somewhere else given
You were all alone the oldest
of the pairs
From also my little heart the family
was driven

  As you became a mother of
a son so fair
Life was going in a direction
that was fastly moving
My sister with the olive skin
and almost black hair
Sought out a life that was
headed toward loosing

 She married a man who was
within himself
And with the problems that
were deeply stored away
It appeared that to her she
was put on a shelf
Until her life was nearly
ended one unfortunate day

Success, freedom, and a lifestyle
of fine living
Not something that is to
be shun
From one to another was not
really given
She up and took flight again
life had just begun

Lonely, without a mate, older
and feeling her fate
My next to me sister~
she met another Mister
From her heart this man
her freedom he did take
And with revenge and hurt she
regretted the day he kissed her

Now with bills to pay, a job,
and her son an adult
A life without meaning,
companionship, and peace
She moves in circles in
her mind
what will be the result

Where will she go, what will
she do, confused at least
Another male figure enters
her life
A kind man also with a past
Her direction hmmm to become
a wife
Would it, could it possibly last

In my mind my sister be
decide With sincerity, clarity, and
once and for the haul
Which things she truly wants
from deep inside
For you see my loving sister,
it never works to have it
all

Life has been very tough~we
both know that
It has been hurts and pains,
rejections, unloving
We have been separated, neglected,
and almost was a splat

It is your life, your fate, your
happiness you must be preserving
With my old age coming near
From my heart I now don't
hesitate to speak
My life without happiness I
always fear
So my sister, I say to you,
WHY ARE WE SO VERY WEAK?

  With the only Love that I
know how to give
I share with you as only
a brother can
For you see its only once
our lives we live
I welcome our feelings they
go hand in hand

  With Love

Lanny