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OLD DAD

12-22-11



When your father grows old,

and no longer knows you -

Will you abandon him?

He will pull down with him -

those who attend to his struggle.

By now, old sores should be healed.

Stories told and told again.

The time has come for us to retire,

and listen to the rain.


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