Slumpless

 

I told myself all these years

That you had no choice

You had to live farther away

Life made it that way.

I told myself you loved us all

That me finding it difficult when you were here

Was somehow my fault.

Then one day I realised

You wanted it so.

You chose to go

Or to stay.

Either way.

Who cares now?

My childish presumption that you would like us there

Is nothing more than a dream.

It now floats like mist over a grey sea.

Farther and farther.

Father.

The distance between us grows

And I cannot build that ship.

I can only paddle.

And you won’t swim.

(c) Slumpless