Always Together Whatever
I am ten may be younger
It is Sunday
The day you call
Every week about 6pm to see how my week has gone
You don’t say much,
I do all the talking, I tell you about the rows we have had, who loves who this week.
You just listen, you have always been good at listening.
It’s midweek I am still only about ten
My weekly letter arrives,
Asking me how I am
Telling me about your work and what you have done
Always saying hello to mum and dad
Telling me when you will be next home.
It’s a Saturday, I’m a little older now
And have come to stay over night
We are staying above the pub at the hotel where you work.
I don’t like the dark so we fall asleep in the same bed
Watching TV, the window open.
You have white curtains with bright pink patterns on.
I am eighteen,
I am collecting my A-Level results today,
You are going on holiday.
But you still call, to see how I have done.
I haven’t done well, I am crying and I can hear T calling you.
You tell me it will be fine and that I will still be able to go to uni
You are right.
I am 20 years old.
I am moving back to uni for my last year,
You are moving my things with me.
You are three months pregnant, but you don’t say
You still carry things you shouldn’t, to help me move.
I am 27 years old.
I call at 11pm out of the blue,
I am pregnant, you are the first I tell.
I know Dad will go mad, for three months you see me through.
I am 27 years old and 10 months
I have given birth to Baba you are the first to be called,
You are the first to see him.
You are the only one who asks what I need.
You are my sister!
My sister is 14 years older than me, she left home when I was 7. So I have spent the larger part of my life, living apart from my sister. But it has never affected how close we are!
This post was written for the Writing Workshop 
I chose number 4. Share some memories of a sibling or siblings
That’s lovely 🙂
Thank you x
So nice that you have such a nice connection with your sister. Am sure she will appreciate rading this.
Thank you, I do we have a special relationship. I think because she was never home, we have never really argued we have just got on. Which is great!
Wow that sounds like such a lovely relationship. You are a very lucky person
Thank you, we do have a good relationship. But I think that is from my mum, she was an only child and made a big thing about our special relationship as sisters so I think that we have always felt grateful for that relationship and if we don’t agree with things we get over it quickly.
That was beautiful. I was hooked right till the end and fully enjoyed reading about your relationship with your very special sister.
CJ xx
Ah thank you, you have made me blush that is so nice thanks a lot! xx
Thats a lovely post. So nice that you are so close to your sister. You’re very lucky.
Thank you very much.
This made me feel really tearful, how lovely to share such a strong connection despite not living together. Beautiful post x
Thank you, I think in some ways it has helped that we don’t live together has stopped the fighting over the years. xx
What a beautiful relationship! I always wanted a sister for that kind of closeness. I’m rediscovering it in my girl friends but what you write about it something very special.
Gorgeous! Thank you for writing this x
Well thats ok, I enjoyed writing it. It brought back some good memories that I haven’t thought about for a while which was great. Thanks for the prompt x
That was beautiful. Thank you. That was just beautiful – I wish I had that.
Oh thank you so much xx
That’s lovely. It was the other way round for me. I am seven years older than my little sister and I was always leaving school just as she was starting, wrote to her from university, she was the first person I told when I was pregnant.
What a lovely relationship.
Thank you, I don’t know whether my sister will say the same I may have just been the annoying sister to her! Hee hee! x
Oh my goodness, you made me cry. So lovely. I have a sister who is 18 years and 10 days younger than me so this really resonated. Unfortunately she is going through an exceptionally “stroppy” teenager period at the moment and hasn’t spoken to me for nearly a year. Its very sad.
MD xx
Oh I hope you and your sister sort it out, it is a great relationship to have, it really is. xx
visiting for the first time from sleep is for the weak, it’s a lovely post and what sounds like an even more lovely relationship
Thank you and thank you for reading my little old blog, that is very nice off you xx