Background

How my heart is hardening

With the heavy weight of grief

Of the realization

That I gave so much more

That I felt so much more

But it landed in an empty pit

With indifference you respond

And the pain strikes deep

I have no claim to make

Just the family we share

For years I have looked to you

You once helped make me strong

But even as the years shifted and changed

I have always resided in your background

And there I shall remain

3/26/18 – ALJ