Colin Hambrook
Colin Hambrook puts on a man suit
28 July 2010
I am pleased the way that the blog section of DAO has taken off in the past few months. Having the opportunity to publish work continues to be a pleasure that I am very grateful for.
When you've grown up with the idea that you need fixing in some way it makes parenthood even more of a challenge...
Man Suit
This baby place
remembers you,
newly made
a smile,
perhaps imagined,
and a way of holding
the little finger
outwards,
as if grasping an invisible
cup of tea
at a garden party.
All-consuming,
you transformed lives;
brought the seemingly
unobtainable
within reach;
eager to climb rocks,
when even crawling
was dangerous,
slippery.
I grew several
heads in a bid
for reinvention;
searching each
face for self-belief
as a father.
Love was easy
as leaves,
in the woods
making dens
of our soft
hearts.
I could
fall into you -
a place of stories
and play.
Caring was
plain as pudding -
not like now,
watching you
shun a mans' suit;
without hands or feet;
and barely a mouth
to describe the new
skin trembling
to grow into the gap
between realities.
© Colin Hambrook
Keywords: depression,mental health,psychosis,
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