I am grateful for the timing of it all, 
if nothing else. For I had months of utter

Loneliness, yet I also had their letters.
I read them and saw at once root of lacking

Love or love withdrawn though I did not yet have
fuller story. But there was silver lining

Sweet, my brother whom I have always adored.
Perhaps of all involved yours is the motive

That most puzzles me. I cannot see my way
to it or through it. How is it you would so

Easily set aside your heart or heart of
the child, mine or your own, beautiful now grown?

There are many things I know if I want to
know but only I choose when to tell. I would

Say only this for now: True legacy is
made day by day, seeing truth reflected

In eyes of innocence that do need to be
protected, respected in both word and deed.