Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A Father's Greatest Fear

No tracks to contain its teeth
No light to show its path
Only the darkness
This feeling of being helpless,
separated
missing
I want for you a safe space
A place
Where you might not feel the wound
The wind that screams like a furious train
Our house, untouched, we can’t complain
But still in that darkness
The feeling of being safe escaped me
That feeling of keeping you safe evaded me
Crushed beneath the inevitable track
Death sits across the table smiling
We speak in hushed voices
The silence
Is unnerving
Come out of this place
With a different view
I feel helpless, I feel guilty

I couldn't protect you

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