“I should be allowed to have a hero” by Michelle Knickerbocker

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Maybe it’s not a rule
but I live like it is
I don’t think about the whats
that he did or the whats
that they did to me
I don’t talk about the unmentionable whats
or bring up who was punished
or who went to prison
because that’s what
happens when you bring up
the whats
Tonight my sweet old mother
who sobbed for my brother
as he rode away, escaping
from the police and social workers
but who forgot why he ran
when she asked him back again
to the house I still lived in
Tonight my mother, my loving mother
lied about the one man
the only man
I have always trusted
and never feared.
I will smile and love her
my mother,
but I will never trust her again.

-Michelle Knickerbocker

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