Thursday, December 8, 2011

My hands resemble my mother’s.
And my smile is almost her's exactly.
But my heart is my father’s.
It is skeptical and questioning;
It is covered in defenses (for everyone else).
Harboring notions that cause it to yield
Without warning,
As if made of the sound in her laugh
When she’s nervous.


So I’m always left crumbling unexpectedly