Family Disease

the curse of siblig rivalry,
usually arrives with the second child
Cain marked Esau disinherited
Joseph in the well

loves his brother, loves his sister
hugs them a bear's embace,
in the hierarchy of love
preference and guilt,

cancer of jealousy,
jungle of emotions
hot and furious, branding,
brotherly love and sisterly envy

struggle for affection and property,
clinical and pathological,
and yet the sclaes of justice
sing of sacrifice

sympathy and compassion,
friendship beautiful and rewarding,
why then an only child,
contracts the disease of jealousy

poem by Shimon Weinroth
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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