I have a family of pain
 Living within me
  
 Frances of the Hip
 Joseph of the Back
 Isaac of the Leg
  
 Frances and Joseph strive and struggle
 Against one another without thought or gain
  
 They cut and slash with burning knives
 And Isaac shrinks away 
 With their agony embedded within his fibers
  
 And I sit back and ask the age-old question
 Why can’t families just get along?
 As love is the path of least resistance.
  
 By Nell Walton
 5/23/19