Lovely Little Lucas - Sonnet

My little sibling Lucas likes to play.
He pretends like he’s slaying dinosaurs.
When he’s not slaughtering, he cries all day.

We hope hes better by the age of four.

He wakes me up at six in the morning.

Sometimes screaming, others cheerfully shout.

All of this comes without any warning.

He is shooed away and leaves with a pout.

I do enjoy his presence all the time.

He always puts a smile on my face.

The time I spend with him is so sublime.

His tiny hugs are the strongest embrace.

He’ll grow up, he’ll forget some times we shared

But he will always love me, this I swear.

Reflections:

Lucas is like one of my favorite people in the entire world. The little twerp gets on my neves a lot of the time, but in the end, I'll always love him and be there for him if he ever needs me. So when we were told to write a sonnet, I had a choice to make; Benito, or Lucas? I originally started writing mine about Benito and how he pulled me out of a bad place, but it proved to be harder than I had previously thought. So when I started to write about Lucas, it just seemed to come to me. Of course Julia helped me work out some kinks in the end, but overall, I'd say that I really enjoy this poem. This is one of my favorite poetry pieces that I have ever written. I'm pretty proud of this piece, and I don't really think I would actually change anything about it. But if I had to change something in this, it might be in the second verse about him waking me up in the morning. I'm not quite sure what I would change it to because, like I said, I wouldn't change anything, not unless I had to. I only know that that would be the part I would choose to change. There are quite a few lines that I enjoy from this piece. It would be tough to decide on just one. I like the line "He pretends like he's slaying dinosaurs" because it's actually pretty funny to see him run around the house with a toilet paper tube smacking these dinosaurs off the couch while yelling "Hiya!" I also like the lines "All of this comes without any warning. He is shooed away and leaves with a pout" because that really does happen in the morning and it always makes me feel so bad to kick him out of my room and watch him pout and walk away with his head lowered. I like the entire third verse, because it's so happy and anyone who had read it has said "I want a little brother!" or "Aww! He's so cute!" And he really does make me smile all the time (aside from when he's being a little tyrant and destroying the house). My favorite lines though definitely have to be the last two. It's true, he will forget some of the times him and I have shared, but there is no doubt in my mind that he will love his big sister forever, and she'll always love him. The strongest aspect in my opinion is how well this reflects the real Alyssa-Lucas relationship. He is one of three people that mean the world to me and I'd be completely crushed if I ever lost them.