Facing the Future
Author: Bill Roberts
Look at them, so young,
so happy – my parents
before I knew them.
So much hope
in those faces
in a year of little promise, 1936.
Ah, youth.
How little they knew
of the future
in spite of
the Great Depression
that drew them together.
Had they known,
they might have skipped
posing for the photographer.
(Published in Pegasus Magazine in 2008)
Note: Ah, my mother and father, so unalike yet so attracted to one another, physically of course, which causes the world to keep spinning. In spite of their mini-battles and major skirmishes during World War Two, they made peace often enough to create me, brother Jim, and sisters GeeGee and Bee/Betty during steamy truces. What draws two people together, what pushes them apart? The age old questions, too deep for me to fathom. But I loved them both, in spite of their shortcomings. Oh, yes indeed, mine, too.
