A skeletal alien stares from the picture br Happy moments frozen in time br with only remembrances of illness br br A sister’s sunken eyes br Protruding checks br Lean carcass br Emaciated br br Don’t fool she’s fragile br No longer the elder playmate br But foreign enemy br Destructing our domestic industry br Is what my mother thinks we remember br br Yet accounts never arise to thought br Hardly noticed we juvenile, filled with joy br A Maternal point of view placed in conscious br Never conquers blissbr br Oni Hayesbr br