Brother

by Lauren

Published June 13, 2009

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JemimaPuddleDuck wrote a review Review · Jun 15, 2009

I love this poem so much! Please don't be angry but i have changed it a little bit below. I know what i is about and i know exactly how the brother in it is feeling although that might seem strange to people. hope this is helpful :-)



Oh brother across the stormy grey sea:

estranged from us, estranged from me.

Your promise kept; you stayed away.

I stare across that vast grey sea;

I stare – only for thee.

How I remember that hazy day,

A garden party, and we, what fools.

champagne all around - except for you

you ran - ran far away.

We drank and laughed at empty things,

And filled our heads with compliments,

But you had run away.

I found you by the gate that day,

when across the field they sifted hay.

I turned to you, you looked away.

You spat at the world,

You hissed at me.

You pulled my hair, you laughed at me.

I pushed at you, you pushed at me,

I fell down crying, you scraped your knees.

Oh what a sorry summer's day!

No-one understands, you said,

they could not: you despised it all,

Even the sun-stained ground below.

People; they were your enemies, foes,

It seemed you felt what the Devil knows.

And then you cried, hard and angry sobs,

Cried for things I never had known.

You left me then, there all alone.

you ran away, across that sea,

I still hear your sobs – please, can you hear me?



I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition – neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!
— Charles Perrault