So Much to Prove

There’s no need to confess all—

no matter that a single confession

has been known

 to clear the sinus

Still,

I have always felt

that I have much

to prove

and here,

seeking the value of confession,

I confess

that I have proved

so very little

to my father

and to the heart

breaking in my chest

not my own,

but his,

Dad’s heart,

and he and I

are flooded with the blood

of the sons

of the sons

of the sons

of the sons

Yet

it is here

after the flood

I will rebuild