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Coming Out
(on anticipating a father’s response)
perhaps the dark truth is
that you didn’t really care either way
and all my fear was meaningless because
there was no investment from you
that I was just a little kid
you had to clothe and feed
and then felt obligated to
well into adulthood
(provided I made sacrifice)
as per some instinct called love
but which you didn’t really name
because you were just Baal’s ghost
a mocking image of a man
perhaps the dark truth is
that you didn’t really care either way
and all my fear was meaningless because
there was no investment from you
that I was just a little kid
you had to clothe and feed
and then felt obligated to
well into adulthood
(provided I made sacrifice)
as per some instinct called love
but which you didn’t really name
because you were just Baal’s ghost
a mocking image of a man
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