collateral damage

This poem, “collateral damage”, took me almost four years to complete.  It started in 2013, then I had to leave it alone for three years, before taking it back in 2016.  Here are three stanzas:

some secrets damage

community

family

relationship

me

I’m no priest

I didn’t want to hear Rodney’s trembled voice confess his sordid secret

seek absolution

he dumped it on me

I went home

showered

the secret wouldn’t drain

to the septic system

© Cindy B. Stevens

23 July 2017

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