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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #1422343
I row, and this is my family
I have
Eight brothers
Yet,
None of us
Are of the same
Family

Eight of us,
Brought together
By a boat.
Baptized in Blisters.
Purified
By sweat.
Together as one.
We are.

While we are not
Brothers by blood,
We have become
Brothers through
Water.
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