TheBanyanTree: His Only Son

[B Drummond]

Never good enough in her burning eyes
falling short in all ways but one
"He's always been a good provider"
and I'm his only son

So grew within two people 
each a wild man, each a hun
"Do not grow to be like him!"
"But I am his only son!"

In him I saw both of me
she saw that neither won
but when he died I saw me die
He and I, his only son

I hated him faithfully for her 
loved him desperately for me
and in the end the one who won
apples never fall far from the tree

Her words do not control us 
her words have come undone
her words killed the two of us
Not I, his only son



 bd
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