Pas De Temps. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

The poet drives quickly past the cemetery where his parents are buried, sounding the horn as a greeting. He imagines his father rising up to give him a familiar look of disapproval, while his mother tells her husband to lie down again.
The poem implies that parents may still influence their children, even after they are deceased. The mother and father are still present, if we allow them to be. Here, the mother




sides with her son against his father. These things I have found in my own life.