Engravings Inside The Walls
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Last published Tue, Jun 3, 2025
"Engravings Inside The Walls" is a raw, emotional reflection on abandonment, grief, and the lasting impact of a father's absence. Through vivid imagery and piercing honesty, the poem recounts the experience of being left behind in the wake of a fractured family, particularly in the face of a mother's death. It explores the silence, selective guilt, and half-hearted gestures of a father who moved on, while his children were left to navigate heartbreak alone. With themes of betrayal, memory, and the aching search for closure, the poem captures what it means to grieve not just a lost parent, but the illusion of a father figure who was never fully there. The "engravings" symbolize the invisible scars etched into the very fabric of life after abandonment-permanent, unspoken, and painfully unresolved.
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