APOLOGIES & LEGACIES

How would you react

If I arrived at your door

Unannounced and insistent

To fry the bacon

And sit in your favourite chair

The remote control in my hand?

How would you feel

If when you opened your mouth

I beat you

To within an inch of your life

Then raped your wife

And told you to be grateful?

What would you say

If I then declared it my right

The privilege of my superior might

And my brutally civil intellect

To have a child with your daughter

So that someone could dig your grave.

What would you think

As you lingered at death’s door

If I told that child not to worry

That your suffering will end

Pray and you will be forgiven

When you get to heaven.

Would you accept my apology

Even though I think I did nothing wrong;

Would you believe my sincerity

Even though your home remained my own;

Would you be able to forget

When constantly confronted with this legacy?