Brother To Brother Poem by jackie compton

Brother to brother.
Now I understand why you work so hard to teach me how
to be a man.
In a world where you lost your youth.
The burden was placed upon you to be both older brother
and father.

You never complained.
Youe rose and begin your day with the rising of the sun, and ended
it with the setting of the sun.
Never once did you ever fall down upon your knees,
and ask God to move your mountain.
Because you knew deep down in your soul.
He would give you the strenght to claim it.

Brother to brother.
Why you worked so hard to teach me how to grow up to be
a man.