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it's a funny realization
if by funny you mean
terrible
disheartening
absurd
to find that your life
is hidden from the person
who you really thought
once knew you best
he was your brother
and he doesn't even know
doesn't seem to care
unless it's so he can judge
to satisfy his curiosity or
to bolster his own superiority
and now you just wonder
how you even got there
you put all this effort
into being helpful
time and energy to
shape yourself
into what he needed
and it turns out that
you're really just
very convenient
always there
just a phone call away
someone to lean on
which is great, fine
damn does it hurt
a paradigm shift of
the heart that paints
your brother as a
fair-weather friend
but now there's more
more people in your life
more that you want from it
connections to be made
and a tug on your
soul that makes the
loss a little less
the gain a little more
because you've grown
while he's been busy
and his interest is
too little too late
but in light of that
you have standards now
expectations
hope
you can let yourself
want, demand, deserve
to be given as much
as you give in turn
because for the right
leather obsessed
cautiously hopeful
person
man
werewolf
you will give your all