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I dont always talk, freely, and completely--openly--and speak so much to my every grown, kid
but ---i ---always ---remember ---how ---they ---make ---and --made, ---me --feel ---NOW ---and ---BEFORE---of ---THINGS ---they ---SAID----DIDNT--- say, now DO---and ---DONT--- DO---and ---ALL, ----the ---THINGS---BEFORE---THAT---to ---me ----I--HAVE---dealt---with---and---SURVIVED---and----ENDURED---they--ALL--SAID--and--DID

I dont talk too much
when i feel others aren't, listening to me as such

For some i use to read to them, and recite them my every, --a --new --poem
but not too much more, as i now have learned to just keep them to --my --own

So i dont always talk or say-- ALOT
when  something uncomfortable i felt, and see  with distraught

Before when the kids were growing up and in school and young
my --voice --loud --and --clear-- was --RESPECTED--heard --and --known --to --each --one

But now the kids of --SEVEN--from ages thirty seven to twenty four
my words of reason, rhyme and advice are respected,--- not ---less ---but ---more

So the words, that i choose to them --to --say --or --SPEAK
are --very --poised --careful,-- less --and --very --thought--out--and--DISCREET

Sometimes ---when ,--i ---speak--- and ---say ---too ---much ---openly ---ALOUD
that ---my ---words--- were ---not ---heard ---LOUD--clear,--- but ---as ---dark ---with ---uncertainty, ---unconcern --and ---CLOUD

So ---i ---have ---LEARNED
to --be --more --quiet --collective --and --reserved, --as --not --to --get --shamed- -- disrespected --neglected-- and --BURNED

For -from -them --AFTER--the--DIVORCE--------------------------im the dad, and I felt  THAT---they--believe--its--my-fault -that -i -lost -their -favor -and -respect --ANYWAY
How my family, was, - torn apart, --with-- the -loss- of --our-- FOUNDATION-- and --KNOCKED-- off---COURE

Im --their-- divorced --dad--sometimes--very--happy--sometimes--very--sad
and ---while--their--mom--tells--them--she--is--just--a--chillin--and--dating--IM--on ---my ---very ---own,--and-- trying-- my --very--BEST--to --HOLD--and--KEEP--them --ALL--CLOSE--TOGETHER--- through --the --GOOD---GREAT--and---GRAND---times---as---well---as---the--- SAD--- UGLY---BROKEN---and ---the ---BAD

so,-- for-- this --family-- to --be --BROKEN-- and--SHATTERED--and--SCATTERED--as--it --has ---HAPPENED--to--us--ME--and---THEM
my ---HEART--FOREVER ---for ---THEM ---ALL ---I---will ---NEVER--- GIVE ---Up---,on ---ANY ---of ---THEM ---and ---WILL--continue--to--DO--MY---VERY---BEST--- as ---their ---DAD ---and ---BEST---LIFE---LONG----FRIEND---with---MY---HEART---to--LEND

By john d jungers
22nd of october 2016


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I dont always talk and speak, too much even to my every kid