"A Christmas Memory to the Son I Never Had" copyright 2012, John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, "Passion Amidst Apathy"

 

 

Courtesy of philharras.wordpress.com

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

that my childhood bride

wanted to start a family.

 

It had only been a year

that I had been 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

always seems to come

at Christmas time.

 

 

 

 

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