Sibling friendship

Can you be friends with your brother or sister?

My mother used to set up the toy soldiers in battalions for her brother when he came home from boarding school. John Foster, one of my tutors on my PGCE at Westminster College Oxford (when we were lucky enough not only to have PGCEs but also to have them funded) wrote a lovely poem called “My Baby Brother’s Secrets” which I found in William Sieghart’s anthology Everyone Sang (Walker Books, 2021).

Task: Think of a game you played with one of your siblings and describe the memory in free verse. Can you show through your language and tone whether you were friends or following the hierarchy of older and younger siblings?