Does It Make You
He is surviving the burden
Of your heart striving to harden
For loving you has never been a bargain
Yet even in his unspeakable pain
He wishes for a daughter no other
You say he has never been a better father
Oh yes, you have got this from your mother
But does it make you a better daughter
To toss him through hell and high water
You say he should have been there
For him to recently reappear
And claim he loves you dear
That his conscience is now clear
But isn’t your deaf ear
That refused him to hear
When he was on all four
Admitting that he had to fall
To realize his flaw.
Forgiveness, you preach
Second chances, your keynote speech
You claim it is but a rupture
That led to unpreventable breach
To your authentic posture
In reality, they don’t come free
In fact they flatter your vanity
But does your sanity
Reflects the actuality
“Put yourselves in my shoes”
You ask
But have you ever put yourself in his
Alas!
You don’t take that to task
But his failings to unmask
Has never been to you so easy
While shame is to crime so nosy
You deny yourself the gift
Of forgiveness
And so he dies
Deprived of seeing
His last wish materialize
But has you heart stop bleeding
As you no longer need to repudiate his pleading
“It was not his fault”
Says you mother at last
“I lied to him that you were not his daughter”
So we wouldn’t be bothered as you grow older
Now does it make you a genuine hater.
To just give your mother a hug
And then embrace her
Copyright © Kenneth Kolowa | Year Posted 2022
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