Fathers' Day

The kids, with them I'm better.
There isn't much more I can define
Right now

Sometimes hearing music
Sort of frees it up
Like right now

I wish someone would say something to me
That only I understand

And then we would look at each other the way
People who understand each other completely
Might

But then there are too many words
And the melody is no longer beautiful
It's a commercial- clever, manipulative

And then everything shuts back down.
And I am left alone again
With the Echo