I.
What is so wrong to want to be loved
even when he knew it was so wrong
buying his new mistress more
than he gave to his own
leaving his children
to fend alone
thank goodness
we’re all
grown.
.
.
II.
Good-bye, father, whom I barely knew
but for the visions of your smile,
your laughter, and easy guile
you loved us, true, yet still
freedom from us, there
behind your smiles
memories,
now be
kind.