Roy Said What?

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October 10th. Are you early?

I’ve had so few thoughts of you. You snuck up on me.

How can you still do this to my heart?

It’s been 18 years.
Do you even remember me?

18 years.

I still remember the day you left.
Why did you have to leave me?

I haven’t cried since.

There was so much more
I needed to learn.
Things you could have
taught me.

I miss you.

I wish there was more I could
tell my kids other than how
you were abandoned with five children
by your first husband.

And that your next choice of spouse
was no prize either.

Why is it that two irresponsible drunks
are still alive and you are gone?

I tell them what I remember, but the memories are fading.

All of my nine children have your wit and love for words.

I regret they never knew you.

But then, I never really knew you, did I?

I’m so sorry for that.

Rita Edlund, my mother.
She would have been 69 years old.