Monday, February 8, 2010

AT HOME


I stood up there

in front of all of them

weeping

for me or my father

I don't know because we are one

so hard sometimes I could not speak

But between the outbursts

those waves of loneliness

that would not subside

for any amount of weeping

I told them everything

showed them my weakness

bared my soul

My inner being naked

I stood before them

to show them who I was

and they couldn't wait

to go golfing

2 comments:

Rosh said...

i love all books by Anita Shreve.
nice to meet u...

TDDavidson said...

Nice to meet you, too. She has an ability to get to the truth of a situation, and the courage to expose it.