Father

.

So, Dad had a stroke

and before that he'd had brainscans.

He suffered from headaches.

If he'd survived the stroke he

would have been a vegetable.

Mom's started regretting talking to me

about him.

Guilt and shame.

Father's weapons.

I wonder how much she

suffered his silence?

In the pulpit he was in his

element.

Master of all he surveyed.

The centre of the universe.

The arbiter of morals.

Power.

.