Fatherhood

Today, dear reader is day 19 of #OctPoWriMo. Our prompt is the question: 'What do you want?'.  There were a few suggestions as to how we could approach it, along with some suggested forms. I did not use the forms but chose to write free verse. My approach to the prompt is almost confessional in nature. I hope you enjoy.

Rod E. Kok
October 19, 2018

Hindsight is

woefully accurate;

a bane on my psyche,

a blight on the soul.

All they needed

was me.

What they received

they did not

deserve.

Determined not to be

that,

I became

much more.

Or much less.

If the question

were asked,

I am sure

I know

the answer.

All we wanted

was you.