<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To my Wife's Step-Father</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All because of you <br>I cannot wear white T-shirts<br>Or play Hey Jude<br>And other songs of '68<br>Around a busy house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In part for what you did<br>I cannot make love <br>To my wife, can't break through<br>The wall of anti-depressants<br>She has raised up to protect<br>Against your memory's assault</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thanks to your abuse<br>There are shadows hidden<br>In every moment of light<br>And unexploded ordnance, seeded in the soil<br>That should be the bed of love</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were God-fearing<br>You made her fear you like a god<br>Hiding in the congregation<br>Where you are buried now, I'm sure<br>It's you who are afraid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All we really need<br>Is for Time to back right up<br>To return to a beginning<br>Where you never adopted her<br>Nor could pose as any father<br>To agents of child welfare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time for a brand new start<br>Where those long years of abuse<br>Have been strangled, all along with you<br>At the moment of birth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for now it's clear<br>There'll be no reconciling<br>While this river runs its polluted course<br>Until another generation<br>Has reached another shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392440" data-title="To my Wife's Step-Father de Frank Bana" data-description="All because of you I cannot wear white T-shirts Or play Hey Jude And other songs of '68 Around a busy house In part for what you did I cannot make love To my wife, can't break through The wall of anti-depressants She has raised up to protect Ag..."></div> </div> </div>

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