Patti Forehand’s poem The City that Care Forgot appeared here in January. Her work delves into emotional terrain. Today’s poem is a study of conflicting memories wrestling for primacy in an important remembrance. I might have called it Balancing Act.
Dear Father
By Patti Forehand
On this your day
still set aside
as you lay entombed
in silence
I remember surely
memories sweet and lasting
while reluctantly I recall
those
embedded in the
dark gravestones of my
mind
On this day
they are the same
as you remain
still silenced
So sad, but so well done.
I think a lot of folks can relate to this.