Poem- “Your Thanksgiving”

“Your Thanksgiving”

I give you water.

You say, “Nostalgia is not enough.”

I give you food.

You say, “Nostalgia is not enough.”

I give you clothes.

You say, “Nostalgia is not enough.”

I give you toys.

You say, “Nostalgia is not enough.”

I give you video games.

You say, “Nostalgia is not enough.”

One day, I had enough of you.

So I took your clothes, toys, and video games.

So I place your clothes, toys, and video games in a garbage bag.

I put all your stuff in a garbage bag.

“You see this?” I say to you.

“I wonder if all this nostalgia should go in the trash!”

You cry.

You weep, you shake all over, and ask for your stuff back.

So I’m about to give your stuff back.

Then you say, “I can always get new stuff.”

I hold back the garbage bag.

“Really?  You think I’m just made of money?”

You say you don’t believe so.

I say to you, “No, you don’t understand.

“Once I throw your stuff away, you’re not getting more.

“You’re my son.  You’re not a bitch who works for nobody.

Are you looking for free gifts?”

You say you are not.

So, as your FATHER, I forgive my son.

Here’s your stuff back.

And, remember!

Nostalgia IS enough!

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