So now you have become increasingly reticent
It’s a long way from the warmth
Of a loving and loved parent
Whose hugs and kisses and mischief
Carry love and care and laughter
Palpable as flowers as a loaf of fresh bread
To this pensive young voice
Papa everything has a reason right
You are stunned to thought
The child is talking dialectics
And you fear what might be coming
You fear what you do not know
Perhaps, you say to the child
But… say… what are you saying
You know Papa sometimes you come home
Tense and impatient
One little thing we say or do
And you threaten to punish us
You yell at us you tell us
You have had enough of our nonsense
All right do you think there are times
When I have a reason to do that
O-o-o-oh plenty of times
Okay next time when there is no reason
Promise you’ll let me know
We dream in our quest
Determined past any argument
To reclaim ourselves our Home
Is the dream thereby insulated
From nightmare which looms and leaps at us
Through the child’s anguish
Which has ambushed her laughter
We do not have a mother
Mama is always away
Struggling to liberate us
When she comes home
It is only to sleep
Scientific though you say you are
You feel haunted by uncountable demons
Pounding you amongst the walls of your haggard despair
As the young voice now barbed
And intractable deflates you
I do not know my father
Papa is always busy
He does not know me either
I pick up pieces of my father
From all the uncles I meet
In search of him
Who is my father
I try to fit these pieces together
To give birth to my father
The clear voice that sees you
With the power of collective memory
Slices the core of you and you shudder
As you hear
The vice is getting tighter
And you’re standing in between
No place to hide
No place to run
Your whole being is a trapped tangle
And you gasp shuddering again
In the heat of your cold sweat
Reeling and wading through the stench
Of your dream turned juggernaut
And you scream
RESCUE ME!
To nobody that you know
To no force you could name
In the moment of when the deal comes down
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