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Lockbag# 19272


(sighs)


Here we are, my contents filled with memories past 4 months

Recollections collected upon due stress and life tests

Plastered upon a college ruled piece of aaaahhhh...jah bless

Yes!!!....here we are

Im here with two first class stamps on my face

You got plenty but I have none to waste...time

Plenty of memoirs on mine....

But naw, he just signed his regular sincerely yours

With a hesitant I love you to be politically correct and kind

Jesus chimed in wit pieces of my life told in parables throughout his father's book

I write my father's book with my own blood smeared across the adhesive as I sealed

Secrets, father and son bliss, bamboozled memories of smiling faces and assisted bike rides through the park

All smeared onto a reality....dark

Empty

You've been behind these walls for 14 years and your son' getting older

He's got a fiancé and two bad shoulders

in a drawer... Bills and bill folders

right under the one with all your letters

And that one picture that looks a hell of a lot like him wit facial hair

Yea...I am here

With his well wishes and prayers for you to get out and see the sun rise

For he is over his animosity

He's back in school at Xavier University

On his way to being a Doctor

And he's got a lot of life lessons in what not to do from you

He stills smiles with one side of his mouth

He still walks pidgeon-toed with size 13s that wanna be 12s

He still talks to himself in the mirror as if he's doing an interview for ESPN

Always saying I love you mom and the very next important next of kin

Maybe even his high schools friends but recently he stops short and straightens his mouth

to a 9:15 with fifteen reasons to gleam

but rather settles for a stream of anger from his eye

and he says, shout out to my dad...."keep your head up!"

With all the honesty in the world, overshadowing his pain....

I am for you.....from him.....

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