The Eyes Are Not The Same Poem by Dónall Dempsey

The Eyes Are Not The Same

Rating: 5.0


Her son blossoming
into his dead father’s
face
shocking her
wearing his old man’s coat.
In the mirror
it’s as if

age like an evil spell
has befallen only her
& her dead husband
(dead a decade now)
hasn’t changed at all.
Their wedding photograph
smiles upon the wall.
She calls her son
by his father’s name

who, smiling, turns
& laughs:
“Who? ”
just the way
her husband would have had.

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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