Remember I Forgotten My Immediate Family-
Oh, I have forgotten
The smell of my mother
She has risen after her 39 years of life
I wondered if I ever told her how I loved her aloud
Got in my mind my subconscious I also may have said I hate you
Oh how I almost forgot the punishing of my father when I was wrong
And he was right in the morning times sitting at the kitchen table drinking strong black coffee no cream of sugar while smoking Bel Air cigarettes
Oh How forgot sitting in the middle of the living room floor
Beside my blind brother eating freshly popped hot buttered cast iron skillet popcorn
While watching the black and white television of McHale's Navy
Oh how often I forgot we were family Fair separated by death
Now with only two of us are here, left
...Oh, how I forget
10/5/2021
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Copyright © James Edward Lee Sr. | Year Posted 2021
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