Dad

Dad

Families are the backdrop to life,

when Jean's boyfriend pilled on the pressure it was her mothers
remark,-

If he's only after one thing he doesn't love You

she acted because of it.

But like a gap in the wallpaper,

it draws your attention to its absence,

the familiar echoes of pattern,

sun bleached to the wall,

a constant reminder

But then it seemed I got you back

you explained it all so clear,

You had to leave

and it was with the tears I had long cried

and the tears you showed me

I nailed it back to the wall,

knowing you were not conventional

couldn't be held with conventional paste

I thought I had you back

Until about a year later

when the paper came loose

your tears had dried and mine could not hold you

and as I tell Jean she did the "right thing"

"we can't let them walk all over us"
Men!

And I remember I was not the only one he left

someone else hurt far more

her tears couldn't hold him either.