Monday, January 14, 2019

Hidden ~ Monday, 14 January 2019

As if I really care why you get so upset, 

Bring it all down, ground it in the real, the pain 
leaps out, like the devil from the flames, in the rain 
even tears disappear, you begin to forget 
silly things, eye glasses on your head, to regret 
slivers of time no one remembers, in your brain 
endorphins flow, my dad got mad over the drain 
disposal getting clogged, the plumber whom he met 

literally, countless times before, we lost track 
if my dad beat me up, or it was my brother, 
for the plumber, routine calls required a lack, 
emotion only played a role when the other 

objective in his life, other than to fix pipes, 
rested on discretion, to salvage a child's hopes.

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