"You can't do whatever" The stumbled out of you Like a leaving a bar looking for a fresh new last call You were not a man of But did best to offer advice You offered me "You just do whatever" And I know you meant You meant that whatever I choose to do, I not be aimless I must not spin this globe and go wherever I stick my finger Because 71% of the I will end up in the ocean And if I do end up in the ocean I can't do whatever, learn to swim
"You just do whatever"
The came after you asked me about heaven Told me that you thought heaven would be specific to each And that each person would have their own of it asked me what mine would be
I was so scared to you, "I have one" But you nodded head, as if confirming a suspicion school had me of a belief in some stories You said "you don't have to what I believe, its enough to be good. Be good" I will. I will about your heaven Your heaven would be the same haircut, It would be a stick a dog and some A lawn that needs mowing A six-pack of pills in those short and your real teeth back your dentures could never master that bottle opening trick you loved to do The first you tried it with dentures I had nightmares for a month Because I though your had fallen off Your heaven, would be Austria the war And after you met grandma It would be head sandwiches and blood sausages Other deli that would ensure you would never ever have to entertain dinner guests And I never be in danger of having my lunch stolen heaven, would be a of raisins Problems that you fix with your hands I remember you tried to fix with your hands I remember the days I remember the They looked like tiny blankets, as if your knuckles had all off to bed Walls that like they'd said something to get under your skin And suddenly made to pay for it I know you an angry man Finger tips like spent shotgun shells, smoke cocktails of gunpowder and singed plastic You had what people would call, "a temper" But you a good joke, if it was on you Something that would crack open the walls of your chest and let the wind your heart Just enough to let you it was still there You didn't always laugh, always smile You did keep a mental ledger of what you your "send flowers list" I thinking it was a thank you to those who got you good But learned the truth after my grandmother added a thin of sand to your sandwiches you refused to make your own lunch for work You me about it when you picked me up from school that day You said "Grandma just made the flowers list" And I "Because you love her so much?" And you said "Because I'm kill her" Of course you Your version of kill two months before winter, Having a seamstress take in of her coats a few inches So on the first day she one She fumbled the sudden tightness And you stood smiling then said "Honey, I love you no matter how big you get" She did not And managed to staple your smile back into a face When she told all of your friends at work that you had to move the spare room Because you couldn't stop at night You often asked me "If I had a heaven, what it be like?" And I you that for such a small word, if, is just too big to wrap my belief around I would not bend to the But wish now I would've Even if it was to ease your mind in the belief That I be headed to that other place you believed in I tell you now how my heaven is here It was here, in the gentle of your relationship with Grandma volleys were traded back and forth Like cards between children who didn't care what the stats meant My would have been someone in grade five finally willing to trade me their fruit roll up For my tin of My hell was "why?" Why would you give me sardines for lunch My would make you laugh Cause I get the feeling you get to do that very much Through my hell, through the terrors and bloody noses Through the black, bruised back, sneak attack, nap sack and winter coat hijacks You did your best to up the cracks in my armour and made my heaven here I would have loved to have made you more To make your send flowers list just So I you now my if If there is a Mine have a post office And I could send letters to The first letter read "Hell's not so bad, they much let you do whatever"