Sunday, May 19, 2019

The Look

Ruminating on

interactions with

the family of several

relationships past,

understanding, finally, that

what I thought were

looks of disdain or dislike

were really actually

pity

and

compassion.

They knew 

all too well

what my future would be -

the pain, the lies, the betrayals

the oft-witnessed chaos and endings.

They also knew that 

there was no point

in attempting to 

warn or enlighten me

about what was coming.

I wouldn't have listened anyway.

But now I see the reality:

they didn't dislike me

they wished they could save or protect me

from the one that they did dislike

but knowing that

they could do nothing about

either end of 

the equation.

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