You have no idea- how could you?
Anger edging the sharpness of your words
Rising like a wind-driven tide to thrust you
and your knives against the seawall that once
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Your writing leaves me speechless. Such intense emotions. I love the way you play with you have no idea, and turn it around. By the way, I think I have some idea.
Thank you, Laurie. I am by nature not a very vocally expressive person. Writing allows me to release what I might otherwise bottle up, and parenting- - like most relationships- - offers many opportunities for emotions to well up. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments. It means much to me. :)
Man! I definitely relate this to my own experience with my sons. Sometimes being a father is pantomime in the dark is an excellent metaphor(!) It was being a father myself that really helped me appreciate my own dad. I see this having effect on the younger of my two who is a father himself now. -G