Exploring things of significance to me (Non-poetic.)

Saturday, 16 September 2017

Fatherless Children

Fatherless children suffer
Because they don’t know how
Father never taught them
Because he didn’t know how

How to love… how to be loved… how to be
And so his babies, they grow into childish adults 
Building walls around their broken hearts
To lock everyone out

An inherited loneliness 
A perpetual fear of closeness
A desperate craving for love
For what they never knew

Where is the hope in this?

Perhaps it’s in the breaking of silence

In choosing to unlearn and re-learn 

How to love… how to be loved… how to be


Fatherless children suffer                                                   
Because they don’t know how
Father never taught them
Because his father didn’t know how


Sarah Kenyi © 2017

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