Letters For You

There’s not one, there are many
Arranged in a blemished, white basket.
Some as thick as mud cake,
Others, as thin as a spindle.
Envelope one, ‘it will be okay,’
Codes, only a sister could understand.

Joy and flooding reassurance,
Letters somehow getting me through.
Written, stamped and sent
With cherry red balloon stickers,
For me to open and revel within
Off and away, one after another.

Nightmares, tossing and turning,
I grasp the letters from my bedside,
As fast as the fisher lets out the line, I feel
Happiness. The sound of giggles and laughs
‘Yippee’ we tweeted like a bird at the top of our lungs!
A letter. ‘Dear Little Sis… Love your Big Sis x’

Without my letters, acute dullness eats me
Is she really okay?