All of these years
All of these
years you have
act as if I
did not belong to you.
Telling people these
lies all of this
time but when
you need someone,
you turned to me first.
You did not
want me with
you and there is
no proof that
I was part
of your family.
Now it is
as if you need
me with you.
All of these
years you have
nothing to do
with me and now
you are like
that you have
been wrong for
so long.
All of these year
all eighteen of them
now something has
happen and you have
asked to come back.
I have tried to
forget my past
but I am facing it again.
All of these years
of pain coming
back to me
in this moment
of time.
-Gene Conner
March 5, 2009