On Sundays
with father
I play my role
in dresses and
crossed legs
so eleganteloquentperfect
and I am
the everything
he had hoped for
some 18 years ago
when I was an embryo
in his mind
I am ceramic Mary
virgin so pure
his untouched treasure
still kept
in its velvet box.
On Sundays with father
I am a shadow
of a long lost dream
and I do it
willingly.
We must never
allow those we love
to become disillusioned.

04/02/2002

Posted on 04/02/2002
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