Just Wondering

A three hour car trip,
Mostly silent.
Uncomfortable clothes
A uncommonly hot
June day.
Shaking hands
with strange relatives,
I'm sorry,
I guess this is sad.
I feel bad for your widow
Dad and my uncles too
But strangely not you.

And now I'm left
Wondering why
I never knew you.
Dad said you weren't
Interested.
But Lucy says
You asked after us
Often.
One of them must
Be wrong.

But mostly
I'm just wondering
If you had known me,
Would you have
Loved me.
And if I could have
Loved you too.
-srw




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