Retrospectives

mother never spanked me
my father once or twice,
not a pleasant child I was
but a rebel seeker of rules
to break and conventions
that were as afternoon tea
in across the water England;
once a past developed, it
never stopped stalking me,
haunting Halloween it was
more tricks than treats
leaving me with no truths;
savvy siblings circumvented
my space in time, forcing
sensitive disclosures and
facts not yet entered into
evidence but acted upon;
steel-toed shoes danced
French minutes with
German precision as
Pyramid sunrises may have
been a verse from Revelations
without the fanfare of
terrorism so prevalent today.

17Oct15