Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #487

The Man Without A Father
by Belinda Roddie

The man without a father wandered through
the countryside with nothing but a bike
and a simple backpack filled up with prunes,
which he ate at whichever time he liked
while progressing in his journey. At dawn,
he sang the lullaby his mother hummed
when he couldn't sleep. But he didn't yawn:
Instead, he wept, and as the cold rain drummed
upon the highway, on and on he rode
until he found the town his grandmother
was from - houses condemned, not meeting code.
It was then, at last, that the man saw her,
and she sang the lullaby just as well
as the one who sent her husband to Hell.