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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/946628-for-my-sister-Rose
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #2081410
my entries for the Construct Cup
#946628 added December 1, 2018 at 12:45am
Restrictions: None
for my sister, Rose
I was sixteen when she was born,
a tiny thing, so easily cradled
in the crook of my elbow,
and I wanted to shield her,
to stand between her and hurt.
twenty-five years later . . .

I think of her voice—clear and pure,
and the way she moves effortlessly
from one melody to the next
as the phrase takes her,
and I laugh as the song
changes to where I cannot follow.

I think of color—
bright rainbows and wheels
and dark landscapes, fireworks
and flowers and shades and hues and
permutations of color
that my untrained eye can
only glimpse as she
points them out with artist’s fingers.

I think of eyes.
I see things differently
knowing that the words
that come so clearly to me
are reduced to colors and shapes—
words coming last to her,
and I long for her world
where other people's meaning
is shadowed.

I think of those hands,
that laugh,
the puzzled look she gives
as she tries to understand
a world that isn’t as honest
as she needs it to be—
and I want to shield her.
but I can’t.

she’s too tall to fit
in my shadow
anymore.

line count: 40

Prompt 8

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