I was there with you
some respectful
steps back, but there
watching you
watch them bury
your dad.
We were kids, you were
just a kid, and
still, kids, even now.
I wrote the above on the 20th, late at night, as part of a stab of sleep procrastination. I had been thinking about aging parents, specifically of a friend’s dad who died when we were just on the cusp of adulthood. The thought makes me sad.
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