My Urgroßvater left his wife & children to the war. My best-beloved Papa hit his best-beloved spouse (but only lightly, only sometimes, and he stopped when she got ill). My mother suffers silences and squalor and his sulks.
And I -- oh, I hope to do yet better and (I will) to learn from all this pain; decaying leaves leave autumn ghosts on pavements slick with rain.
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[content note: domestic violence, abuse] Love as praxis
Date: 2014-10-14 11:11 pm (UTC)his wife & children to the war.
My best-beloved Papa hit
his best-beloved spouse
(but only lightly, only sometimes,
and he stopped when she got ill).
My mother suffers silences
and squalor and his sulks.
And I -- oh, I hope to do yet better
and (I will) to learn from all this pain;
decaying leaves leave autumn ghosts
on pavements slick with rain.