Dear Father

Patti Forehand's poem The City that Care Forgot appeared here in January. Her work delves into emotional terrain. Today's poem is a study of conflicting memories wrestling for primacy in an important remembrance. I might have called it Balancing Act.

Dear Father
By Patti Forehand
On this your day
still set aside
as you lay entombed
in silence
I remember surely
memories sweet and lasting
while reluctantly I recall
those
embedded in the
dark gravestones of my
mind
On this day
they are the same
as you remain
still silenced



Posted by Annmarie at 8/16/2010 12:32 AM
Categories: today's words
Tags: memories father Patti Forehand
 

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