our fathers

[tiltbillings]

How do we forgive our Fathers?
Maybe in a dream
Do we forgive our Fathers for leaving us too often or forever
when we were little?

Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage
or making us nervous
because there never seemed to be any rage there at all.

Do we forgive our Fathers for marrying or not marrying our Mothers?
For Divorcing or not divorcing our Mothers?

And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness?
Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning
for shutting doors
for speaking through walls
or never speaking
or never being silent?

Do we forgive our Fathers in our age or in theirs
or their deaths
saying it to them or not saying it?

If we forgive our Fathers what is left?
* This poem is read during the last scene in Smoke Signals. It was
originally published in a longer version titled “Forgiving Our
Fathers” in a book of poems titled Ghost Radio by dick lourie published by Hanging
Loose Press in 1998

[Ben]

Thanks Tilt.

[Modus.Ponens]

Beautiful poem, and I don't ussualy like poetry.

[DAWN]

I forgot the face of my father.

PS But i have just to watch in the mirrow.

[Yana]

I forgot the face of my father.

PS But i have just to watch in the mirrow.

Beautiful Poem

[DAWN]

I forgot the face of my father.

PS But i have just to watch in the mirrow.

Beautiful Poem

Thanks for your compassion Yana, it's gentil.

But actualy, i'am not sorrow, because if i could remember my father's face, icauses were different and consequances too, so i wouldn be here and, perharps, never meet Buddha teachings