Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Guess Who Is Not Coming For Dinner?



all those years ago

you arrived
just before Christmas

i invited you
because you would be alone

you were not welcome
at your boyfriend's family

there was no need to ask why

you endured all kinds of rejection
and insults from them but still married him

the sigh of relief
was palpable
when i first met them

me
very blonde white
with matching children
and the right intonation

your never overcame your bitterness
you refused to face the truth

and for too many years
you took it out on me

i wish i had never invited you






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12 comments:

  1. Vandana Sharma19 December 2013 at 00:32

    Some things are beyond our control

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  2. Mary19 December 2013 at 05:22

    Sometimes things don't turn out as one hopes they would.

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  3. Hopie19 December 2013 at 06:50

    we live and learn...sometimes other people's baggage is just that...theirs and theirs alone.

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  4. humbird19 December 2013 at 09:38

    All these nice melancholic words really feels like the lyric for sentimental song...~ very nice

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  5. Laurie Kolp19 December 2013 at 10:16

    It's sad sometimes family takes out their misery on loved ones.

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  6. Claudia19 December 2013 at 13:23

    ugh...it's tough how things turn out sometimes...and it's even tougher to face the truth..

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  7. Peggy19 December 2013 at 15:53

    How sad that your friend took it out on you. No explaining people really…good take on the prompt. Thanks for posting.

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  8. The Way of Dodo19 December 2013 at 16:23

    Sad ..... a story within a story too. Is the regret inviting her - or meeting her ex?

    Be sure you did the right thing in sharing Christmas with her, regardless of the eventual outcome.

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  9. Cressida de Nova19 December 2013 at 19:24

    She is still married..If I were a racist I would never have invited her or befriended her. Unfortunately my views are not widely shared amongst a certain lot. Her family in law would have preferred a package like me and made that fairly obvious to her .As a soft target I became her whipping boy for the ills of society. Yes do regret inviting her initially.
    The right thing is definitely a very costly exercise...but we learn and I am no longer a soft package ( now - one of those boxes you can drop out of a twenty storey window and does not crack:)

    And I am not answering any more questions about poems...regard this as your Christmas treat Doddles:)

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  10. Intelliblog19 December 2013 at 21:20

    Bitterness can twist people and make them lash out and harm even the hand extended in order to save them...
    Nicely written.

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  11. Old Egg21 December 2013 at 13:32

    How is it that by being kind to others you are cruel to yourself? A leopard is known by its spots, humans are much more difficult to fathom.

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