suicide poem #6

 suicide poem #6  

royce by pulling
that trigger
you’ve spared
yourself my
grandkids’
growing up
their school and
sports successes
their loves and
losses and given
them instead a
burden they’ll
never outgrow
though its
present pain
may recede
in time

©2014 Jacqueline Jackson

This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2014.