Friday, July 2, 2021

Dead Dad Double Helix

I'm finding I'm seeing you

still hating you, loving you

and years have gone by

since you died


they say grief is a tide

like ebbing and flowing

a process

a path of continual growing


well, it's fucked me up more 

than I've ever been fucked

I thought when you died

I'd be free

but...that's just not gonna be


I'm seeing myself in you

and hating me for it

thrashing against tides

and fighting off love

alone in a world full of people


on these days

darkness is my

only fantasy left


depression rolls in

a thick gray miasma

a funk that aint funky

blue....but not like the sky


you were my age

slumped on the kitchen floor

I feel your pain now

but I didn't before

( and I'm sorry)


so, how do we get through this?


you had your religion

your shot gun of words

a tongue that was barbed

and a pot that you stirred


I have my stars 

and a heart with some hope

an armor of stones

but it's like living on a fucking tightrope


I'm learning it wasn't just

your death that brought me here

but the one thing we share

that's the same

......dna



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