1492: You Can't Have It All | Barbara Ras

[exceptindreams]

"You Can't Have It All

Comments

[secretsolitaire]

I like this!

[onestringed]

this made me tear, thank you.

[browngirl]

This is gorgeous, and perfectly paired with the quotation at the end!

[exceptindreams]

Thank you! My grandfather died of Alzheimer's a five years ago this December, and it was his birthday on July 2 and I wanted to do something to remember him. Hence the poem with lines like You can visit the marker on the grave/where your father wept openly. You can't bring back the dead and You can have your grandfather sitting on the side of your bed,/at least for a while and the quote about Alzheimer's/dementia at the end. So yes, thank you for noticing and for listening to me about my grandfather.

[browngirl]

Oh wow. You are totally welcome; thank you for telling me!

[med_cat]

I love it...and very true. Thank you for sharing this poem; I must seek out other works by this author :)

[moireach]

I REALLY like this. It seems like it could so easily swerve into being saccharine or trite but it keeps bringing in the unexpected instead.