Love Poem: From Freedom and Remembrance
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Written by: Thomas Martin

From Freedom and Remembrance

College phone call from estranged father

“Just remember We love you,” he says,
 This the first time, I remember,  


. . .Remembering. . ."We love you. .."

That lightning strike of joy,

My heart so struck

I could never speak it to him.

 
Never speaking that heart strike even as he died,

Forgiven his failings of attention,

Tacit understandings of regret;

A hard, Depression childhood,

Toiling on Tobacco Road,

Stuttering man-child

Steeped in cruelty

and ridicule. . .