Eldest, You are cruel by nature and not knowing better, but you will come to learn that is no excuse. An unfilled form, you're a hand half in a glove, and it makes you careless. You will later apologize for coming first, Eldest.
Eldest, you are a stand in. See what responsibility looks like stretched over adult bones. Stretch out yourself. Pull on it. You idealize a lighthouse. You chart a course, some careless and rambling march, that well, isn't really supposed to look like that. Slowly, you grow to resent your stretch marks, Eldest.
Eldest, always guilty, you wish youβd known that youβd been responsible all along. Eldest, dwell on this, as to make sure it wonβt happen again. Teach your eldest child this lesson and hope they do better than you. Blindly feel the yokeβs pull, Eldest.
old poem i'm dragging up again, alas it didn't age as well as others