Suddenly

It all passes in the blink of an eye.

Dewy skin.

Bright eyes.

Acute hearing even.

Hair everywhere you don’t want hair to be

while the hair you want has gone missing.

It all passes in the blink of an eye.

The ability to jump.

Just jump, any height for any reason,

Down a step.

Up

onto a rock.

No longer able to even envisage

that once youthful energy.

It all passes in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly, a baby boy is thirty years old.

Suddenly, he no longer needs your help

To eat or walk or talk.

Suddenly, he’s a man.

And you, you are an old woman.

Bittersweet Sunset

by Lee O’Connell

DaddyDaddyDaddy

It’s Sunset

and finally

you saw me.

After years of getting by on that

one motorcycle ride

milked for all its worth

over and over again,

sounding like a recurring event

that one time.

DaddyDaddyDaddy

That’s all I ever longed for,

to curl up in the knowledge

of being wanted,

to see my reflection in your eyes.

DaddyDaddyDaddy

as the sun set

you held my face in your hand and

gave me the whole world

in three words.

Me & Dad April 2018

                                                                                            Dad on his Harley, 1939

For My Baby Boy...

For My Baby Boy…

Sitting on a park bench

My ta-ta’s exposed for the world to see,

I give you sustenance

My beautiful baby boy.

Walking in the mall,

You at my jugs

Slurping lunch, while

I shop for the perfect gift.

Visiting friends

You call for dinner,

So I whip out my knockers

Disturbing round-eyed husbands

Who cannot look away.

I sit at the concert

The cans are overflowing

Drenching my shirt.

I wake you

To staunch the flow,

And shock waves hit the audience around me

Like a tsunami.

I hope when you are a man

My baby boy,

You know …

Boobies are a place of nourishment

An honored place of provender,

More than sexual titillation,

More than your personal playthings.

I hope when you are a man

My beautiful baby boy,

You remember.