If the daughter of your love
said, "Daddy, I may be dying
because my memory is leaking
all of the lives I didn't live
all of the stories I didn't tell
especially the sad ones
because I couldn't bear
to be the artist of more
worry lines on your face
."

Would you pretend you didn't hear
or change the topic to sports?
Would you open your wallet
and buy another bracelet
for her slim wrist?

If the daughter of your love
said, "Mommy, I may be dying
because my memory is leaking
and no one has a bucket
without holes
, or a mop
and I don't want to ruin
the floor again or the walls
of this house, your heart,
with my words that are not poems."

Would you hold her too far away
or send a card with a message
written by someone else
?
Would you take a trip with friends
as she lay alone in the hospital
clutching an unbreakable telephone?

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