Snapshot of my brother

Your photo
shows you looking
straight at the camera

With that smile-for-the
photographer look

And your hair sticking up
in places it shouldn't

Just the same
as when you were
my child-brother -

You still look younger
than me though
of course you're not..

Now seeing you again
all I feel is pity

None of it was your fault,
you didn't know - and

I'm sorry it's been
so long, too long.