A Suitcase of Promises: How I Sold My Father’s Hope for Peace

un-write the lies I fed him like medicine.

All I can do is refuse to let his love become my excuse.

And maybe—this is the part that makes people angry, because it refuses a clean ending—maybe my punishment isn’t that my kids abandon me someday.

Maybe my punishment is living long enough to finally understand what I did.

To feel what it’s like to need someone.continue reading …