Adversity

Adversity vol. 2 published by The Poet Magazine (2022) has included my poem,   

He Was Always Yours

He Was Always Yours
Susan, how did you cope? Did you have a smoke of rope? That day, February 25, 1988 You could have bathed your child  In your tears. So infectious was your sorrow. I began to wish for tomorrow The child could be ours, instead. Yours and mine. Adoptive father and birthmother. Only I can think like no other. I followed your career. So similar to my own. A Counselor of Compassion. Continued to wish Anthony be ours. As the hours sifted, swayed. Time slipped away. My marriage went from farce to divorce. What other direction of course? I always hoped I might present Our son back to you. Facilitate the Mother and Child reunion. But Anthony found you, I hear. Without me. He disowned me, and the other. Did done say how I was as a Father? Oh Susan. I guess he could never have been ours. He was always yours. _______________ 

*Anthony (given name) Nathaniel (adoptive name). 


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