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Monday, July 6, 2009
On Being a Terrible Father
On Being A Terrible Father
So I disgust you?
Pencil my name on paper
And erase it until you rub
It into shreds of trash
With no letters
No meaning
No memory
So I disgust you?
Get your friends on the phone
And relate your horror
In graphic detail
Of terrible treatment
Terrible trauma
Terrible existence
So I disgust you?
Gather an angry crowd
Pump them with rhetoric
Arm them with revenge
And strike out in anger
Strike bone
Strike heart
So I disgust you?
Isolate my existence
Torture me into retribution
With silence and tension
Until I break apart
Break my belief
Break my understandings
So I disgust you?
Paint me midnight black
Cover over any specks
Of bright redemption
To darken my image
Darken my past
Darken my future
So I disgust you?
Vilify my relationship
With your every word
To inform the world
Of your terrible fortune
And your terrible life
With your terrible father
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1 comment:
Burton here:
Deep man. I was thinking about this stuff the other day, as I have kids and this type of thing crosses my mind from time to time.
I wonder how many people who complain about how awful their parents are ever stop to wonder what kind of kids they were!
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