Family Secrets, Ties and Lies

 
For thirty-five years his father drank heavily
Every weekend like clockwork with no end
And his father would always reminisce about old days
Melancholic he ended a friendship with his best friend
 
For thirty-five years his parents had been together
Through thick and thin through good and bad
His father would drink to forget the troubles
But it revived memories and made him more sad
 
“I was the worst son of a bitch” his father would say
“I drank and cheated on your mother” he’d confess
“And can you believe the woman still loved me?”
There was a pain the man wanted to get off his chest
 
“Son, I love you so much” he would say during binges
“Don’t you know you’ve always lit up my life”
“Take it easy dad” his son would tell him lovingly
As the old man would cry tears to his son and wife
 
“I’m sorry I was so bad to you” he’d say to his spouse
“You’re more beautiful today than the day we met”
“That was a long time ago” she would reply to him
But sometimes guilt and regret never lets a man forget
 
About a year later his father suffered a heart attack
And his son rushed to the hospital to be by his side
His father apologized for all those drunken binges
For the times he rambled on, reminisced, and cried
 
“He’ll need a blood transfusion” the doctor told the son
And he was more than happy to donate without a catch
But that was the day, that after some thirty-six years
The son found out he and his father were not a match
 
“You knew all along?” the son asked the old man
“I forgave your mother just as such as she forgave me”
For in between family secrets, there are ties and lies
Some carry the weight in their soul so gravely