Family Breakdown

When does a family collapse and die?
Is it when bricks conspire to melt?
And crumble down the house

Or is it when dreams that held us
Silently disconnect and dismantle

Is it when a touch, once so brotherly
Unnoticed faint and vanish
Into the vistas of despair

Or is when we are drawn to ourselves
And stop talking like we used to

When does a family break down?
Is it when this or that happens?
Or is it when it simply breakdown.