Brought me to tears today

As I sat in line waiting

For my chicken sandwich

At Bueno…

Looking at the age spots

On my arm remembering

How my sister growing

Up hated the freckles

She had on her alabaster

Skin enhanced by her

Strawberry blond hair

I loved her freckles

I had none she therefore

Deduced I must have been

Adopted teasing me

Constantly…

When she went to college

She became our sunburn

Queen scorching her skin

Into the color of a red lobster

Thinking the freckles would

Disappear or fade to Tan…

As time moved forward

My sister Turned into

A beautiful swan…

She always kept her beautiful

Shape and sprayed silver

Into her hair to change

The strawberry to Platinum

Found make-up

And was soon voted the best

Dressed at college…

I continued on with my

Tan skin and dishwater blonde

Hair and she finally admitted

As she became a 3rd grade

School teacher that

I wasn’t adopted…