Comes and Goes

Father should have took his life some twenty cycles ago But he stuck around for the little ones and pre-packaged cans of poison Saw him through to sixty-two when his mind started to turn His pituitary pickled and his eyeballs dry from staring Morning comes and goes and comes and goes and comes and goes and comes and goes and comes and goes again Mother should have took the pill at seventeen years of age Avoided a lifetime of miserable circumstance and graced the stage But she bore the boys to fruition to save them from the Upside Down Turn Around Where Robert Mugabe pioneers infanticide Morning comes and goes and comes and goes and comes and goes and comes and goes and comes and goes again