Why?
He is thirty-seven and has gone to prison for two years.
Hopefully his wife and three children will wait.
Solomon - in all his wisdom would have sent him home
to grieve: for Willow, Angel, Thor, and Keavy.
Every day he will feel a failure.
Every time he sits down to eat he will see their young faces
and loathe the spare cash.
And forgiveness will not erase
the stamp - the indelible mark on his soul.
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© Cormac McCloskey
The backdrop to this poem is the case of Nigel Gresham who, inadvertently caused the deaths of 4 of his 7 children.
The most famed story of the wisdom of King Solomon: The Bible: Old Testament: Book of Kings Ch 3. 16-28
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