Although However

                                                    Although,

I am

the byproduct of empirical ignorance

a victim of domestic violence and verbal abuse

the son of a father who was somewhere else

son to a mother whose demon was mental illness

brother to a sister possessed by the same demon

him whose baby sister’s life was taken by HIV/AIDS

related to a half-sister more evil than Darth Vader

However, 

I am

now the byproduct of acquired intelligence

a man of unfettered knowledge hewed from books

full of virtue governed by uncompromising principles

that faithful husband to the same wife

the father of graduate level university students

a poet whose voice is likened to O.T. prophets

in the world a man most unremarkable

 

© emmett wheatfall