My mother, my father, my sister and me,
On horseback regarding the camera, smiling. 
My brother is absent as he’ll always be, 
An incomplete course, the college requiring. 

Just one month after the picture was taken, 
He was found walking alone with a Bible,
Naked as the day when he came from the womb. 
Shy, gentle Mike broke a State Trooper’s finger. 
Soon he was subjected to electric shock. 

Then descends a curtain of uncertainty,
A tension ever present with intention
And attention hesitant and reticent. 
Presentiments of future futility,
Fatality shattering reality. 
A kind quiet soul, simply seeking serenity