Warring Siblings! Poem by Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore

By Stanley Collymore

Okay! So we're biologically related, and that isn't
my doing; or was it ever a matter in dispute as
we have the same biological parents and
therefore are undoubtedly siblings
who're unquestionably naturally
related to each other. But these
factors in themselves don't, won't or shouldn't
automatically make us clones of each other,
and specifically so in our thinking. For
we are in essence fundamentally
different persons and not only
how we noticeably look in
visible terms but likewise
too to how we normally
respond to numerous
things meaningfully
and that reasonably,
practically, and
level-headedly
in adult terms
is definitely
how it really
ought to be.

So give me a break please in terms of your constant,
unwarranted and offensive criticisms, as well as
your never-ending condemnations of me!
And in doing so hopefully as well stop
your irrational trying to change our
established familial rule book
into something to suit your own personal, arrogant
and rather narcissistic ends. And actually doing
so by idiotically claiming that although you
freely accept that we're close biological
relatives and therefore indisputably
even siblings, our, prescribed by
you, insoluble differences in
opinion over some matters
you consider as essential
accordingly determine
and even necessitate
that we either can't
or shouldn't even
aptly be friends.

© Stanley V. Collymore
24 August 2019.


Author's Remarks:
Families! The imponderable problem isn't it? An established worrisome conundrum and state of affairs in which many of us experience multiple disagreements with some or even all of them at some time or other, while for other family groups it's simply plain sailing, an uncomplicated case of the sun shining out of each other's backside, so to speak, and there's not a solitary care in the world as regards their inter-familial relationships let alone any serious problems emanating from them.

So how does this happen, and what's the binding solution for universal family harmony? Respect for each other, love and basic understanding I guess. But if in the meantime you personally come up with a fool proof solution to this perennial predicament and familial quandary then let the rest of us know. But prior to that, and unless you're saintly altruistic, patent it first, as I'm pretty confident it'll be a money-spinner for you for sure!