"daddy, maybe"

i'd say i could forgive you
if Newton's laws of fusion
were logically probable -

maybe i'd forgive the accident,
maybe i'd forgive your God-forsaken star,
maybe i'd forgive your de-part-ure;

but maybe i'd ask more of you
than you'd ever have to give.
maybe i would ask you to put down

THE BOTTLE
before it was too late.
maybe you'd listen between

walls made of legos
and doors made of logs.
maybe you'd smile back at my 6-year-old self.

but maybe to forgive you
i'd have to forgive myself first.