dear henry

Posted on March 5, 2010 by lindalou5150

dear henry

you are

long dead

now

i’m certain of it

i can no longer

feel you here

how many other

children

did you destroy

were your granddaughters

spared your sickness

or were you able to

steal their lives

as you stole mine

that night

on your son’s bike

leaning up

against your garage

time stopped

as i watched dusk

steal through  the avocado trees

bastard

i was only eight

About lindalou5150

as exercise or exorcism, i write...for the eyes of others, for my eyes and heart only, for the love and the rage, i write...to release the gamut of emotion...to tell the truth and say what's often thought but not written...
This entry was posted in poetry/poesy. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s