a family of pretenses 

is not a family

the mother pretends 

to love her children

but all she loves

is money

the father works and works

but he is slowly

dying

the older sister finished

college

but now only works

so she can fund her partying

and the brother

is only nice when

he has a lover

and the youngest

she is lost

and all she does

she writes empty words

like these to fill her

empty life