Holiday 10

International Siblings Day

Siblings, left with time alone
will fashion full-fledged worlds for play
and hang them up at end of day.
Do they keep spinning on their own
momentum, or is there a zone
of neither progress nor decay?
I'm sure that they don't go away.
I think that someday, when I'm bones

a world (or four) we made awaits
where we are missed as sort-of gods.
I'll find my place, anticipate
my sister on the path I trod
and tease her for arriving late.
That must be it. I damn the odds.