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Father's Day
In those final moments before death comes,
will I taste my father’s lust and know past hurts,
or will what was harmful be turned to goodness?
Will the same passions that sustained me in life,
sustain me through death?
In those final moments,
will the songs sung in childhood
lift my sprit on that path from
known to unknown?
Will I know the hand
pressing my chest?
Or, is death a passing
from forgotten to remembered?
will I taste my father’s lust and know past hurts,
or will what was harmful be turned to goodness?
Will the same passions that sustained me in life,
sustain me through death?
In those final moments,
will the songs sung in childhood
lift my sprit on that path from
known to unknown?
Will I know the hand
pressing my chest?
Or, is death a passing
from forgotten to remembered?
Published 18th Jun 2023
| Edited 20th Jun 2023
Author's Note
This morning I reread mother's poem, "How Do We Die?" I sometimes taste a bitter saltiness in my mouth when remembering my father and childhood. I've dreamed that that I'm a child and he comes into my room. He was not a good man and I wonder if I've repressed some memories of him.
I edited the photo from one my mother had of me as a child.
I edited the photo from one my mother had of me as a child.
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I sorry about your father. But you had a mother who loved until the end. Keep on writing.
4th Jul 2023 7:38pm
I would answer the last question of the poem, Yes for some people, No to perhaps most others. How many went to unmarked graves without memorial..
Title and theme bring whole new meaning to Father's Day. You show how some people feel unable to honour it with affection for their own fathers.
Title and theme bring whole new meaning to Father's Day. You show how some people feel unable to honour it with affection for their own fathers.
