Thursday, April 30, 2020

April  30,   2020



A  CRI  DE  COEUR


Does everyone have one:
at least one  cri  de  coeur?

I tried to tell you what I was feeling
but you would not listen.

Maybe you were also crying.

Daddy wouldn’t ….
Mommy was always  somewhere else
as she sat there while he yelled.

I wanted peace in the family,
but nobody else said anything.

I could have been a poster child
for “The Scream!”


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

1 comment:

Biblioann said...

Incredibly touching poem. You speak for many, I think, especially during this lockdown time....
Thank you Fr. Andy for your gift of communication.
We miss you!
xoxo
Ann and Rick Kennedy