Patterns Are for Quilts
A Happy Days baby with blue eyes and ringlets
skips childhood
charges his drunkard father
protects his mother
The hits keep coming
The pattern re-emerges
With graying hair and tired blues
he protects himself
behind great walls of isolation and self-medication
Hope says there can still be happy days
Scraps stitched together make something new
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Profound!
this is good, Lori- i like the language you use to break a cycle