Grandsons

I left my daughter long ago

When she was only three months old

It was a stupid thing to do

My selfishness so very cold

Betrayal and abandonment

The distance growing day by day

Too many broken promises

Till there was nothing left to say

I never met the sons she had

River first and then came Jasper

Would not devour their fair-haired mugs

Nor eat up their boyhood laughter

I left my daughter in the lurch

My grandsons lost out of the gate

A punishment fit for a fool

Who learned his lesson far too late