a friend in need found a Friend Indeed?

I’m arrogant, impatient, just prickly as they come

So it’s a real no-brainer that I go out alone.

Except my loyal partner, who’s home all day and night,

I’ve never had somebody whose liaison is tight.

My brother drove me crazy, and not in a good way.

We hadn’t much in common except some DNA.

As kids, we fought routinely. We punched and scratched so deep,

made hurdles to a friendship irrevocably steep.

He crashed my college party. Our folks were out of town.

While dressed in drumline costume, he threw the revelers out.

We tolerate each other, leave well enough alone.

Our individual lifestyles, accept but not condone.

The tide has turned but lately. Accord has yet been sowed.

We spent some time together, a weekend on the road.

Though Mom was right there with us, we didn’t quarrel once.

Can we have laid our arms down? We’re mates, I have a hunch.