The last laugh

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I woke up

 and looked

around me :

My body ached,

A sense of loss

engulfed me.

I took a breath deep

and set out afresh.

I worked

I earned

I gave my mother

A sustenance

She smiled.

My younger brother

hiding behind her

smiled too.

Twenty years later

I am still

toiling for nectar

while he smacks

the honey.

Mother relishes

his company

                                                           And will not send him out.                                              

 I wonder

when

 I'll ever

have the

 last laugh.

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