How do we forgive our fathers?
Maybe in a dream.
Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us too often or forever,
When we were little?
Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage...
Or making us nervous when there never seemed to be any rage there at all.
Do we forgive our fathers for marrying, or not marrying our mothers?
For divoricing, or not divoricing our mothers?
And shall we forgive their excesses,
of warmth, or coldness?
Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning?
For shutting doors?
For speaking through walls?
For never speaking?
or never being silent?
Do we forgive our fathers,
In our age or theirs,
Or in their deaths?
Saying to them?
Or not saying it?
If we forgive our fathers...
What is left?
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