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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