Friday, August 14, 2020

If I don't raise my voice

 He gives me one eye, one ear

but only if I raise my voice.


I don't want to raise my voice

but if I don't, his mind drives off


into the backroads and hides.

At some point, I ask myself


should I let him be a gamer, fail

school, pay his dues? 


His cat would starve if 

I don't feed him. He says


let him hunt mice or just

return him to the SPCA.


Kids can only love so long.

Just ask the cat and me. 

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