Closure
in two
weeks’ time
she’ll be
on a flight
14 hours
with her
kids
going and visiting
her dad
her mother’s grave
other family members
sights and sounds and scents
from her childhood
and I’m listening to her
tell me all about it
and I don’t know why
but I start to cry
and can’t stop
I try and try
but can’t
and I don’t want
her to see me like this
anyone to see me like this
to see how deep it goes
how it’s always there
and she tells me
she’d go
with me
if I ever
but it’d be
like Everest
just to board
let alone touch
down
not like there’d be
this family reunion
or anything
or that I’d understand
a word anybody was saying
or anything
and 14 hours
I mean really
yeah, no
can’t see it happening
nonetheless
a part of me
is left
there in that orphanage
in Korea
a baby I need to hold
and never let go
TL