Everything Is Relative

The details were less than shocking
but more than mild surprise...
He discovered his family
not as most of us do gradually
but all at once in a telephone call.
He wasn’t who he thought he was.

Everybody begins somewhere...
and everybody is a story.
All stories begin somewhere.
Should it matter if the story
begins there instead of here?

Life
from the onset
is an adventure.

Blood
may not be
the most reliable test
of who the brothers are.