Poetry

Emily


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6 january 2012

Wanting to Give Thanks

He built the shelf in our garage for his time,
He smiled and attempted to lightly converse,
He showed true kindness, despite the actions in a certain part of his past;
He purchased an expensive item that I did not ask for.

To my shock and self loathing, it did not occur to me to give him thanks;
To my tremendous guilt, he did not have a job to earn money.

At the time, I had no mind or knowledge
Of the dark pieces of his shadowed past.

Those fragments of time I had wondered around about his recent welfare;
The last fragment I had sound of his whereabouts,
I discovered in shock that he was in confinement, punished
For the crimes of his past; his foolish mistakes; his regrets.

Nonetheless, he was already a changed man.

If only I had thought sooner...

If only I can see him once
Just to give my unsaid thanks.






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