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“To the Son I Never Had” copyright 2012, John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”
Posted in A Christmas Thought: Looking back at the Son I Never Had, tagged Divorce, Family, God, Home, Lord, Military discharge, Poetry, relationships on July 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »
honorably discharged
from serving four years of military service.
It was a hard financial year for us both.
We were finally getting on our feet
with a new home and good jobs.
I told my child bride I wanted to wait.
It was a month later
that she filed for a divorce.
It left me a shattered man
for a very long time.
There is no man
that lives a life
without some regrets.
Those regrets
seem to come
more often
lately.
This morning I thought of the Son I never had.
Today he would have been Fifty.
My son might have changed the world.
It would have been a better world
if my son had been born.
He may have been our President today.
It was fifty years ago
that at twenty-one
that my childhood bride
wanted to start a family.
It had only been a year
that I had been “To the Son I Never Had” copyright 2012, John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”
Posted in A Christmas Thought: Looking back at the Son I Never Had, tagged Family, Forgiveness, God, Home, Lord, Time on April 1, 2013| 1 Comment »
honorably discharged
from serving four year of military service.
It was a hard financial year for us both.
We were finally getting on our feet
with a new home and good jobs.
I told my child bride I wanted to wait.
It was a month later
that she filed for a divorce.
It left me a shattered man
for a very long time.
There is no man
that lives a life
without some regrets.
Those regrets
seem to come
more often
lately.
This morning I thought of the Son I never had.
Today he would have been Fifty.
My son might have changed the world.
It would have been a better world
if my son had been born.
He may have been our President today.
It was fifty years ago
that at twenty-one
that my childhood bride
wanted to start a family.
It had only been a year
that I had been “A Christmas Memory to the Son I Never Had” copyright 2012, John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”
Posted in A Christmas Thought: Looking back at the Son I Never Had, tagged A Christmas Poem to Linda Faye Smith, A Christmas regret, A Memory of a Son I never had, Christmas thoughts, Looking back at Christmas, Regrets at Christmas on December 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »