After the Funeral...

12.12  For Naomi

You waved from the frosted window

as you passed with flashers on

just a link in the funereal chain

and I knew that you at least

would break ten years of silence.

I just never realized you might 

break our hearts in the process.

“You can say hello to your father,”

and I dared to shake his hand.

Instead, he pulled me in to him

wrapped his arms around me

and broke my notions of my father

in that moment I was genuinely

sorry for his loss.

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