Fathertime Past

[Delta40]

you abandoned your role
with some free pass in life
and rewrote your story
with a cheap talking wife

some dog-eared photos
shot with haphazard care
blur out the face
of your children so fair

I search and wonder
when you loved us last
but all that is left
is a moth eaten past

[hillwalker]

This I do like. A bitter little jibe at absentee fathers, yet with a courageous dignity that erases any sense of self-pity.

[PrinceMyshkin]

This is a heartbreaking - and a heartbroken - poem. I grieve for you and wish you the peace you might find when you have either forgiven or forgotten him.

[Delta40]

lol

I figured just to write what was in my heart on the day- the highs of moving on and the truth of who he was - the memorial section in the paper is into 'you were a Mike Brady Dad' sort of stuff....

[qimissung]

That could have been written by my oldest son, Delta. Interestingly, after months of a standoff, and his father's refusal to meet him halfway, today they had a father-son outing. My son is 25, and this is their first one in years, though my son has practically begged to spend some one-on-one time with him.

[Bar22do]

Delta, it's one of my preferred by you! Bitter, sad, contained. And so well penned. Thanks and best regards to you. Bar

[MorpheusSandman]

This is a really poignant piece. I especially love how it moves from understated imagery (blurry photos) to such a superb and powerful metaphor to conclude it. Really excellent.