my mother and my father are far away and huddled together against the weather they look hopefully out to the sea as if one of us is coming to pick them up and the odd thing is that they show no resentment at the lateness in their faces as they would normally do and are unconcerned by the violence of the weather I suppose in some way it is in them too yet they huddle my father slightly taller than my mother they are small people their faces set and looking out as I have said without resentment without acceptance as they have never accepted anything to be given they are not two people in a storm not a microcosm or a couple for whom the other suffices is satisfactory and provides not everything the other needs that would be even for the most ideal couple if not impossible then unlikely no but since they are not looking out for others it seems each is looking out to the sea for something that the other needs and they are looking out together for each other and if they are looking out for us it has got to be precisely because a mother needs a son to come and pick her up and a father too needs a son whom he has not finished saying everything he needs to say to and never will and a mother needs her children not to know she needs them as much as they need her ... if not more 24.12.2021 – 28.12.2021
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