Walter Preston

Brothers II

Brothers,
I can
not speak
of you.
I long
to put
away
the time
of our
child’s play
when we
wrestled
with life
on the
dusk of
a day
that was
ending.
Brothers,
I am
searching
for you
in the
heights of
Milton
and the
depths of
Dante,
I who
am stuck
in this
earthly
hell, I
who am
left to
wonder.