To Someone I Love.
You know I love you more than life.
I gave birth to you-Perfection.
I can no longer hold the candle
At the door of your defence.
I cannot wear the mask
In the face or your pretence.
Or try to shed a light
On the path of your destruction.
Or your reasons, & excuses,
Your tides, your deduction.
I know you made the choices for the drugs
& your destruction
And your denial refuses,
To admit your wasted talent.
Your gifts untold, recluses.
Your art will remain unkown.
Your poetry - unsown.
A wasted talent
O my son,
A seed perhaps ungrown?
Surprises.
7 years ago
Beautifully written Meg. We start with such high hopes for our children, but they belong to themselves, not to us, as Kahil Gibran so elegantly put it. Which doesn't ease the heartache any......
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