Dear Juliet

Dear Juliet

Listen

to a father’s foreboding

it’s a difficult time 

when you’re half grown.

No longer a child,

but not yet an adult.

Half grown

with fully formed temptations,

and such contempt

for adults,

fathers especially,

you always know best

but listen,

the forbidden fruit

of first love

is poisonous 

not for tasting

and when the feuds of the fathers

meet the dreams of the fathered

there are no happy endings.

You always knew best

until you didn’t.

So listen

and heed a father’s foreboding.

Author: Lynn White

On OMPJ 

Photo Credit: Maksym Harbar on Unsplash