Love Rewards the Brave
“ She hands it to me to read so I can understand things more plainly.
The letters are scrawled in his crooked slant way.
The way I spent afternoons attempting to correct same old me trying to perfect.
Because if things are done perfectly or as good as can be then maybe I won’t be used for Dad’s negativity.
The page looks crumbled up then smoothed again trying to pretend it’s something it’s not.
“Lou-Lou, Remember when we were little and we’d lie in your bed together, l...ooking at the night? You always said the sky made sense because it was all black sky and all white stars, nothing was confusing outside out window. Nothing was gray like inside our house.
You taught me everything I know. You taught me to count and to tie my shoes. You made sure I had clothes to wear. You would put me on the kitchen counter and put Band-Aids on the places that were hurt and even though we both knew no Band-Aid was big enough for our kind of broken, but you still tried.MoreLess
The letters are scrawled in his crooked slant way.
The way I spent afternoons attempting to correct same old me trying to perfect.
Because if things are done perfectly or as good as can be then maybe I won’t be used for Dad’s negativity.
The page looks crumbled up then smoothed again trying to pretend it’s something it’s not.
“Lou-Lou, Remember when we were little and we’d lie in your bed together, l...ooking at the night? You always said the sky made sense because it was all black sky and all white stars, nothing was confusing outside out window. Nothing was gray like inside our house.
You taught me everything I know. You taught me to count and to tie my shoes. You made sure I had clothes to wear. You would put me on the kitchen counter and put Band-Aids on the places that were hurt and even though we both knew no Band-Aid was big enough for our kind of broken, but you still tried.MoreLess
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