Cheap Fireworks In The Rain – Written Monday 17th October 2022 (Aged 47)

Cheap Fireworks In The Rain

all in all these fathers
that never father
and who never take –
their children much further
never really gave stability
only some hand built insanity
only some slipshod reality
what good is it when their children –
are forced to wear their boots
the ones of emotional instability
and what good is it when their children –
are forced to wear their clothes –
of guilt and shame
just as they stand in the garden
watching cheap fireworks in the rain
these fathers,
like a patchwork quilt of trauma
leaving their families not much warmer
gruff, and yet, apparently tough
these fathers do not amount to much
leaving adults,
longing for the parental love




James Garratt – Monday 17th October 2022


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