next chapter dear brother.
I write on occasion of your birth. A day I wasn’t around for but one which affected me though only on writing this can I really feel. It is a sorting of myself that brings me to analysis you. you who does not talk to me. You who has made worse the hours years we shared and with your denial of me. I am unloved by.
Nonacceptance is the greater harm than any years of the past for one is past , the other on going.
Dear brother;
You know I don’t dislike my life though your achievements the world would weigh more heavily then my own . I am not without my talents. but even as i write I don’t feel equal to you yet write to support myself and my independence from the lingering remorse i feel as your shadow of my life. Your ideals I do not share. Your work ethic , so embedded into you by our step father ,I have seen as a hindrance. Not that people should not work hard. but to work for self fulfillment can never be proven as worthy. I feel i have created things, a magazine, a band, my website, my consciousness, and my writings are all events well earned and not as linear as what your life would appreciate.
But yet sitting in the back of my car, the world of material gains would weigh me in different, those who weigh by money and possessions are really lost to true harmony. They give up peace for schedules and individual consciousness for group ignorance.
Even as I write this one yearly letter I come to see myself again and again as having the harmony enough to continue on the path of adaptation and self realization. while you Just what? bend over backward to hold on to your piece of the ever lessening stability of materialism. The group think of corporate controls. A group think that depends on subservience and forced subjection to emotionless designs.
I hear so little from you , except your wife sits alone while your work takes you across the lonely country.
I remember only the last hate filled words against a mother who fed you and a brother who’s life you have no right to enter. And yet I write you , not to you, but to the world about you, to free me.
for I don’t know if you will ever read this , I don’t know cause we don’t talk. Not after the last where you offer advice over a new frind. advice you shouldnt give because of the unfortunate absence you have been .
You will never see the one hundred and eighty five dollars i owe you. You will never see it because i am an artist and live from hand to mouth as they say. but you also will never get me to build you a house or hear me write a kind word to you, you have missed out on my love and as such there must have been many people you have missed out on and i pity you.
but I did talk to you four years ago, when your compliment another artist because you don’t understand my work or just didn’t give a shit to look at or listen to what i have spent years formulating.
While my sin against you are few , you tried to kill me once , chasing me with a knife, subjecting me to cruelties after the fourteen years of abuse had ended. and I still remember how you tested me and my loyalty when at the back of the car at seven or eight you stabbed me with a sharp pencil and i didn’t say a word. You were ,and are still, cruel, inhuman and emotionless. It is a quiet pain i have never really identified until now. even though the lead from the pencil is still a black dot in my thigh. I will always hold that against you, and i can see by your size you hold it against yourself.
You are spineless and afraid . You never came to realize the beauty of true creation and stick to a life of cruel linear emotionally devoid subservience. Just like when you were young, spineless, “Taught” and never self relevant. I always tired but at 46, I am done.
I write this and most everything i write is to free myself, because i need freedom. I need to feel a true sense of self forgiveness by not holding on.
I guess i forgave you everyday of those years, and one last time I forgive you with these words because you are just what you are. and personal advancement is a self achievement i need for me. It is the loves’s we have lived that we need to understand. and i now understand you for the cruel man you will always be.. good bye.












