There is no darkness<\/p>\n
only light<\/p>\n
i see coral oranges and teal blues<\/p>\n
i see\u00a0anger…I see rocking chairs<\/p>\n
I feel questions<\/p>\n
I hear pain<\/p>\n
this is my book of genesis<\/p>\n
I have no illusions on how I came to be<\/p>\n
i moved into a womb<\/p>\n
of a\u00a0stubbornly loving mother<\/p>\n
and a cancerous father<\/p>\n
he negotiated his blueprint<\/p>\n
to another<\/p>\n
my mother had not ceased to exist to him<\/p>\n
she was solely the woman he wanted at convenience<\/p>\n
his disconnect seeped into her womb<\/p>\n
and I wondered in the wake of this family fire<\/p>\n
how love existed on this side<\/p>\n
I had seen our lives disconnected<\/p>\n
defied by my father\u2019s own selfish crusade<\/p>\n
he was imperfect, as every man I have encountered<\/p>\n
And he bailed, as every man I have encountered<\/p>\n
he taught me first<\/p>\n
that i mattered only after his own needs were taken care of<\/p>\n
my existence to him is only after<\/p>\n
that is how my world came to be…<\/p>\n
i have no doubts about any of it….<\/p>\n
and I still love him despite it all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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