telephone call with my mother
she called last night
after watching an oprah show
about children of divorce
she wanted to know what i felt
fifty-three years ago
when she left my father
she said that she knew
she'd never asked and never
told me why
she wanted exoneration
and i granted it
we all do the best we can
and how much worse it would have been
had she stayed with an angry
drinking man
she told me that when i was three
and she sent me to stay
with my grandparents
i told them: i always know
when daddy comes home drunk
because he wakes me up
and does any of this matter now
into this new century
that will close on us both?
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