Neko Belle's "The Sisters" describes the ache of a long-distance relationship in which love survives but the couple somehow doesn't. The speaker says they still laugh and talk, and they are still "madly in love," yet they "weren't us anymore." The poem turns distance and uncertainty into two sisters who are always together, one never without the other. At night, alone in bed with her partner thousands of miles away, the speaker hears them whisper comforting lies: that this separation is for the best, and that each of them can find happiness at home.
The mood is wistful and quietly painful. The images of a withered rose and a sunny day turned to storm show how fast things feel like they've changed. The ending drops the sisters' voices and gives the speaker's real wish: growing old together in rocking chairs, watching grandchildren play. The trailing ellipsis suggests she can't let that dream go.