Brother

You left me alone in this world,

Your head was in a whirl,

You purposely took a step out of this world.

Weights, chains, iron bars pressed upon my chest until I could bear it no longer,

but my brother, 

I remembered.

Bright, then Dark, 

bit by bit,

The things that you taught me,

sunk into my being and fixed.

I pressed those weights, chains and iron bars

I pushed and even pulled,

until they were no longer.

My brother you have taught me,

and I remembered.

I will never let anyone go through what you have, not in my life.

Because it pains me that you have taken your own in bitterness and strife.