This is a reaction to a newspaper report that really got to me . . .
I guess you know the feeling?
Not great poetry, just something I felt I had to write . . .
I had a loving father, who I suppose made me what I am - he died when I was 16 . . .
I'm still trying to impress him . . . (Sniff!)
Spot the Yeats line?
Ha!
Comments? Yes, please!
KTJ X
Loving Dad
Where am I? How was I? What will I be?
Who have I been? Well let me just see . . .
I’ve crawled through the mud of the ocean’s floor,
I’ve totalled my failures and reckoned the score.
Now you won’t forgive me? No? Not very nice,
next time you see me - laid out on ice.
Why couldn’t we, wouldn’t we
get it together
for the sake of the little ones
whose sweet ends’ tether
was never lovingly reached by us,
yet for them it was unknowingly clear
that the end so far, so far for most
was for them so near, so near . . .
I went out to the hazel wood,
I gassed them in our car -
all it took was a mowing machine
to run for half an hour.
Now where are you my Lovely?
Talking to the press?
I’ll wait for you on the other side . . .
Sorry about the mess.
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Katangan
Written by meadowcroft1964 (102 comments posted) 19th June 2008 |
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Katangan
Written by meadowcroft1964 (102 comments posted) 19th June 2008 |
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KATANGA
Written by meadowcroft1964 (102 comments posted) 19th June 2008 |
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Written by meadowcroft1964 (102 comments posted) 19th June 2008 |
| Sorry about that I've got it right at last. I like you feel pity towards anyone driven to suicide after losing contact with there children, but I have no understand why he would think it right to take the lives of those he supposed to love. To me it's was his way of taking revenge. Children shouldn't be used as a tool to cause pain or financial gain by anyone. Father's if you find yourself in this position please bind your time record all attempts you make to maintain contact. never forget a birthday Christmas etc even when you have nowhere to send presents then when the child get older you can prove that the separation was not your doing. |
Written by lovelysarah1984 (81 comments posted) 19th June 2008 |
God that makes me cry. You have dealt with a very delicate subject John and have done it brilliantly. It was a tragic thing that happened and my heart goes out to that poor mother who has lost her own life in those of her children.  |
Written by mia_ms_kim (1019 comments posted) 19th June 2008 |
I wonder what drives parents to take the lives of their own children? We see it on the news all too often these days. I wonder if some people can be in such a state of despair, that they believe they are protecting their children from pain and hopeless future etc etc?? Or if in a case of bitter separation, is it their way of claiming their children, particularly for men if the family law is unfairly hard on them? I surely hope revenge is not a motive! That's just too terrifying.
I wonder how the parents who faces something like this, can even face life after something like this.
You surely made some of us think, John.
Mia |
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