What if (a poem by Paul Larkin)

What if you were honest with me and say what you really meant.
What if you cared enough to risk your heart to lend

What can I say when say cannot understand.
How can we communicate when you seem like a foreign man

It all comes down to money you say because that’s been an easy option
But now I am a man it’s become a strange concoction

You say say you love me and will never turn your back
But dear Father there’s always been a lack

Now I’m a father and husband I can clearly see
That our relationship was a falsity

Based on things that don’t really bind
And you have always said you don’t really mind

Maybe its the Navy and being always afar
But your success has has left us with a scar

Don’t you see when you had a little time
To give yourself to your last line.

Now you have set your decision in play
And our reality seems so far away

This game of chess that you perceive to not understand
Is really your mind creating a protected false hand

So now as the play unfolds to it’s conclusion
Is there any hope within our confusion

Or will we sit on our thrones of sorrow
Justifying ourselves like there’s no tomorrow

The final act does it lie here ?
Or have you gained insight and developed your ear.

I will not give my heart to what is not true
And I hope and pray the same for you.

So now it would seem that check mate is near
Once we see what we really fear

I cannot love your choices and your people
Nor can I lie to seal you approval

So here I am once again talking in riddles
but often enough if you look close enough

The truth lies in the middle.

This post was submitted by Paul Larkin.