Lance

Lance

Four Years
And counting

It’s better now,
There have been enough years
You don’t look “just like your brother”
Now you just look like you.

You haven’t changed
Just my memories fading,
Remembering now occasions
Extra sweet, warm and funny
Tender times.

Remembering less,
Living more,
Seems traitorous at times
How can you “forget someone”
After thirty-two years
Of love and hate
Bills and babies
Faithfulness, infidelity

You heal
Soul scar
Jagged and deep
Looses its angry red
Fades light, white
You heal
And today I saw you
And you were simply
You
L

Are You Aware?

Are You Aware?

In the place where you rest
Are you aware
That you are a grandfather
Now, for the very first time?
Birthed by the child
Who walks in your footsteps
Working in the industry
That tried to exterminate
Your soul.
And not so strangely
Your firstborn longs
For the day he walks
In the forest,
Works in the wilderness,
That gave your soul flight.
And are you aware
Of my love?
L