Carolyne

Pain sit beside me Trouble remind me Of every way I am blessed I got my sister's blood in me My daddy's poetry My mother's heart in my chest Sorrow skipped my generation I see My parents took it for me My mother's mother left nothing to bury My daddy's daddy buried Every trace of a new father's love In the face and the frame of his son In the hard-to-say surname, the gardener's palms Of the dad who did what his dad could not Who fell in love and let himself fall Who didn't run off in the face of two babies But raised them to love and be loved Carolyne, Carolyne, look at your middle kid now Didn't she dance half the weight of the world Carolyne, Carolyne, I wish that our lives could have crossed I wish you could see what a mother your middle kid was Kissed your grandkids and showed them off