poetry poetry....

permanent family?

what's the difference between what is broken
and what is whole?
is it

the sunday morning walks?
the father kissing the mother before
going to sleep at night
opening presents
on Christmas morning, the memory
of Mother and the Santa
by the christmas tree

the child doesn't know
not until
the family is gone
the hen has fled the coop
the marriage bed gone cold

what do they care?
a future has been broken.

"Family Planning"
-9:54 AM
-04/23/2006