Years cannot erase
the sad fatigue
in the little boy’s eyes.
I do not know
how he and his mother
and threadbare siblings
stayed warm
in the winter nights
before welfare.
I just wish I could
hug him now.
About riverwriter
Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else?
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Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.