Father, Lucille Carlin

Father

Lucille Carlin

I used to watch television in monochrome, spending my life in my yard or in my home. I didn’t have you to play with often, though I am the one who made your heart soften.

This is not the world when things went well. Once they fell, it was almost hell. But we did not relent, even through such torment.

Now we are no longer in that place, but tears still run down my face. I am not yet ready to deal with fnality. The universe knows no end to brutality. But, in the end, we are family.