What if they no longer
want
what you have to give?
Excuses come - Easter, birthdays, Christmas.
You learn to hide your gifts.

How about when you
WAKE UP
from 'self-development', selfishness?
When you can't thank them-
their part in this work-in-progress.

...

You're a little more whole now,
a little less so.
Home's a little bit colder,
wrinkling slower,
frozen in laughterless chimes
of the Grandfather clock.


© DanGlyn