By Joe Gardner
Our story begins
With us all being scattered to the winds
With us all being scattered to the winds
No two parents shared
Separated by
Miles and years
And a lifetime of fears
The only connective tissues
Is our parent’s mistrust issues
No bindings of time to hold us together
5 ships passing in the dark
Perfect strangers
One sister is a mother of two;
Divorced and remarried to an English man
The other sister just turned 22
Lives way up in Quincy and she has never met me
Got a brother 5 years younger
He acts just like his father
Got another brother
That was put up for adoption
Back when my old man
Was a young man in the pen
And one last sister
Who proved angels don’t live long on earth
She passed shortly after birth
2 brothers; three sisters and me…
A six pointed mystery
Six points of scattered misplaced family
