To My Uncle Poem by James McLain

and SOON I WILL GO BACK TO THEY
OF WHOM
I TRIED TO BE A FRIEND AND ONE AS WITH
REDEMPTION FOR MY YOUTH AND IS.
AS I DID FOR SHE, BY HIS PERMISSION
FROM ONE FROM HE WHOM WORE HER BLACK
FUETE GRACED, YOUR MOTHER
I AM AS I AM
MANY QUESTIONS WILL I HAVE, THE ANSWERS
FROM THEM WILL DICTATE
IF I WILL KEEP THIS LIFE I HAVE
I WISH TO KEEP.
BUT FOR MY DAUGHTERS LIFE
THE SUN SHE TOSSED AWAY
BECAUSE OF WHOM
SHE DID BEFORE, I CAME
AND AS A CHILD, I AM IN THIS
YOU KNOW THIS NOW.
AND YET IF THEY DO WHAT THEY MIGHT DO
AS COWARDS IN THE NIGHT.
AS POWER DOES WHEN USED, THAT WAY IT
WAS BY THEY, NOT I, THIS CHOICE NOT MINE.
OLD AGE HAS LEFT ME SIMPLE
AND BEING SAID, I WILL WITH HER
COME UP THAT WAY /
WHEN IT'S SAID AND DONE, I AM THE SON
OF THIS ONE THIS, THIS STATE
THE STATE DID MAKE, I MADE AS WELL /