Something for my daughter. 11 years on bub x. Poem and image by Chris Canham

Something for my daughter. 11 years on bub x. Poem and image by Chris Canham

There is So much I remember now,

And so much I beg away to forget forever….

I can’t be more than I am?

How could a paradox be anything else than that?

Questions and time and time and hopefully deliverance

For this mood is a room and this gloom is a bird singing sorrowfully…

I still love her?

No.

But I could try,

I could try for you my principessa.

I could try if it made your heart whole again.

Blood soaked tears shed in sheds that are now watershed.

This place,

These bad rhymes on top of silent sad.

If I could just reach up I could be your father babe, your dad.

I can fix you,

You mend me with your existence,

Promise me you will listen when I tell you It was not that I didn’t care;

For there was nothing I cared more for in every shape form and life spawn…

Promise me you will shake dust from your hair and persevere when I go.

The time will come, you and I – ‘we’ will know.

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